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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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Jerome David Salinger
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
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Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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People never believe you.
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She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
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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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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
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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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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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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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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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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.
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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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