Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I 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.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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