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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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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
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I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
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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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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
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Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
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... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
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