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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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New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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.
J. D. Salinger
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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 don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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Give me an honest con man any day.
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
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