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I am always saying Glad to've met you to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
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I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
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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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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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