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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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Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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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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I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about 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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I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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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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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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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
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I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
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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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