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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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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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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Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.
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Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.
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The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
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There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.
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'I never saw so many tigers.'
