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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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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Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
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She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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