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First Quotes by J D Salinger
- 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…
- 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…
- Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere…
- 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…
- In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
- You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it.…
- Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational…
- Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.
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