Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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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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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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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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