I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERPoets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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