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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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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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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
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It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
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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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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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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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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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