Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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