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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

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 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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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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Do it for the fat lady!
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
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