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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
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I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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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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Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
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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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I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
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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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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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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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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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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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This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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