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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...
“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 res...
“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.”
“I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
“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.”
“I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least so...
