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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
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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
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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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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
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Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
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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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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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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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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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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
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