Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERI’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People never notice anything.
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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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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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