QUOTES by J. D. Salinger
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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around."
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"I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him."
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"Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong?"
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"It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window."
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"Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?"
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"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 get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out."
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"Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies"
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"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 shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."
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"You take a really sleepy man, Esm�, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact."
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"I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it."
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"Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it."
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"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
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"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God."
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"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 you'll finally produce the work you're capable of."
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"Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said."
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"He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff."
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"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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"Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?"
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"The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me."
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"Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all."
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"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 had reached puberty."
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"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse him of having created an ugly world."
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"Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos."
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"I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."
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"You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you."
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"I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it."
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"She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all."
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"They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way."
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"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."
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