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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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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Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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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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I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.
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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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We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
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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 even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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