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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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J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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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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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
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I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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.
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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I am always saying Glad to've met you to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
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The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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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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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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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 was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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