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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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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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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
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There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
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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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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear 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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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
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For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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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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