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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 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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.
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Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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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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She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
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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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I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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