J. D. Salinger Quotes
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
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If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
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Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
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It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
