J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
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I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.
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He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
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I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
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Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.
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'I never saw so many tigers.'