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Give me an honest con man any day.

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
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
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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 never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
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The sentence im reading is terrific.
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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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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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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