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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

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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New York City
New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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People never believe you.
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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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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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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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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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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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 take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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