50+ J. D. Salinger Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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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Death Live Man Oneself
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
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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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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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Change Love Myself Reason Time
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
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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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich

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