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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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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.
J. D. Salinger
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
J. D. Salinger
I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.
J. D. Salinger
There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
J. D. Salinger
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
J. D. Salinger
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J. D. Salinger
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
J. D. Salinger
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J. D. Salinger
In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
J. D. Salinger
Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J. D. Salinger
The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
J. D. Salinger
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
J. D. Salinger
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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J. D. Salinger
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
J. D. Salinger
Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
J. D. Salinger
People never believe you.
J. D. Salinger
Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
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