J. D. Salinger Short Quotes

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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

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The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.

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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?

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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

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Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.

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This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

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I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

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I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

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In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

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Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

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People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

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Even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

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I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.

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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

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That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

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I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

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