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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 City
New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
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I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
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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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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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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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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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