I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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