People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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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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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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