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

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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
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Jerome David Salinger
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She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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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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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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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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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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