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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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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When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
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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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It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
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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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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
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If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).
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