I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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 never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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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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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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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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