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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).

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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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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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It’s history. It’s poetry.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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People are always ruining things for you.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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 thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
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You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.
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