Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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