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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

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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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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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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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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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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If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
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People never believe you.
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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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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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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
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I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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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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