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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
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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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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Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
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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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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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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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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
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