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Some Quotes by J D Salinger
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.'…
- 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…
- If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around,…
- Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
- 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…
- If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
- An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
- 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…
- If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just…
- 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…
- There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I…
- I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it…
- Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
- I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody…
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