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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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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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I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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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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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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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
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I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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Give me an honest con man any day.
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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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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
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