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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 just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
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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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The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.
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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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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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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 suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield
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Do it for the fat lady!
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