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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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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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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about 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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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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probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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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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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).
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If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
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It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.
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Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.
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