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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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Do it for the fat lady!
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You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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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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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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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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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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People never notice anything.
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The sentence im reading is terrific.
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I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.
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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
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