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Kind Quotes by J D Salinger
- I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind…
- 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…
- 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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things,…
- I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
- I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be…
- I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
- It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time…
- I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I…
- This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself…
- I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why…
- We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the…
- If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The…
- Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an…
- I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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