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Been Quotes by J D Salinger
- 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.
- For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study…
- Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by…
- If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply…
- Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest…
- She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she…
- The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room,…
- Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
- God, I wish you could have been there.
- What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been…
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