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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
New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.
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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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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 just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
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I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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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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I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
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Do it for the fat lady!
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
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