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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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That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
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For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.
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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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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
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Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
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I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.
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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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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
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Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
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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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