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Famous J. D. Salinger Quotes
“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
“I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.”
“The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding”
“I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.”
“I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.”
“God, I wish you could have been there.”
“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.”
“Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?”
“The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.”
“Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.”
“You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.”
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally.”
“I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.”
“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”
“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
“I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.”
“I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.”
“if somebody at least listens it not too bad”
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.”