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J.D. Salinger
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terr...
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do some...
“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to s...
“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the...
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases a...
“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
