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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
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J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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New York City
New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.
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I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. Salinger
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).
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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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Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
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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.
J. D. Salinger
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. Salinger
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
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