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Say Quotes by J D Salinger
- The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything.…
- 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…
- It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
- Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old…
- I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,…
- But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely…
- This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
- I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have…
- If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all…
- However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how…
- I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
- The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love…
- One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when…
- Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
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- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
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- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
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