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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

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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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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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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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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People never believe you.
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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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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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
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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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I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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