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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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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Literature

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The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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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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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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