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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
Literature
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Anything
Something
Practically
Understands
Nobody

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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.
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If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
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I think that one of these days, he said, you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
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I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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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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For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.
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This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
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We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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