Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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 always ruining things for you.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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