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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.
- 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…
- Are all your stars shining?
- What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like…
- But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.
- Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if…
- It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times.…
- I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.'…
- There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I…
- Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
- If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy…
- 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…
- I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
- All mothers are slightly insane...
- I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
- There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
- But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all…
- If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously…
- All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
- It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
- He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people…
- They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and…
- What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific…
- Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's…
- But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that…
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