J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
