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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

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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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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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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Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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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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Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—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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There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
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I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
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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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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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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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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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