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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
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Jerome David Salinger
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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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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I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.
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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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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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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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Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.
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The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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