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.
J. D. SALINGERI’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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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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 love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean 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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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