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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
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Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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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 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 don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
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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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People never notice anything.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.
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How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire
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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'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.
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I am always saying Glad to've met you to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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