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Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
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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Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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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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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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People never believe you.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
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Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—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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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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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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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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