Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGERI was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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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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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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