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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

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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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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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Do it for the fat lady!
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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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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Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
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Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
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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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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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The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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