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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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Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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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 sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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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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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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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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