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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.

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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I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
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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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You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).
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probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that
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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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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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You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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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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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Give me an honest con man any day.
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