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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

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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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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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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What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
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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 kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
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I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
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The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
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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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If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
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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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I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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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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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.
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