I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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People never notice anything.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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 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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