Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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