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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
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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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I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
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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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Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.
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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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