People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERI have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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