I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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