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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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The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
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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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The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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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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Are all your stars shining?
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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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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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It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
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We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).
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I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
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Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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