50+ J. D. Salinger Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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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Action Fear Yourself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
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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Exception Herself See Togetherness
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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Art Happiness Worst
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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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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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Pride Writing
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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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Peace Place Yourself
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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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Lie Life Music Myself Travel

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