Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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