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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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New York City
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Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
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Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Listen, he said. If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya? No, but-- You're goddam right they don't
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
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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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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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