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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.

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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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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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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There are still a few men who love desperately.
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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
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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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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
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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.
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
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I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
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