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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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.
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Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from winning the Super Bowl.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
