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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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J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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Jerome David Salinger
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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.
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Are all your stars shining?
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
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I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
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You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
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Do it for the fat lady!
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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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.
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People never notice anything.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
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Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.
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His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
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