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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to 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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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 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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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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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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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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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in 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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
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Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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