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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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Sarcastic

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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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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 so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
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The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
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She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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