I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGERThe true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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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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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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.
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