How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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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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People never notice anything.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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