QUOTES by J. D. Salinger
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"Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married."
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"Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it."
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"Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all."
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"Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all."
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"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. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of."
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"This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't."
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"I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing everytime you crossed a road."
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"My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking."
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"In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself."
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"Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason."
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"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 you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?"
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"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."
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"People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it."
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"It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question."
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"She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations."
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"[...] don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? ... Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy."
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"I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one."
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"If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did."
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"She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs."
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"I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door." ( A Boy in France : Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945)"
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"I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though."
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"Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away."
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"If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable."
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"I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((())))."
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"That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think."
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"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, practically."
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"It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world."
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"It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."
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"Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will."
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