I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People are always ruining things for you.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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