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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.

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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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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Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.
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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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I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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