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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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
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I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.
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I was with my king In the heavens When Lucifer fell Into the deepest hell. I carried the banner Before Alexander. I know the names of the stars From the North to the South.
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'I never saw so many tigers.'
