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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Sir Humphrey's stories about Africa made Charity feel exactly like one of his stuffed trophy heads -- lifeless and glassy eyed. The only difference was that she usually ended up face-down, slumbering on the sofa, instead of hung up on the wall.
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The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
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Sophisticated-looking than the girl he used to know. People in hospitals never looked good. And yet, somehow, she did. Dianna was in the middle of saying something to a thin woman with a severe black haircut who was sitting on a chair beside the bed when she looked up and saw him. Breaking off in the middle of her sentence, she sucked in a deep breath, her face flushing beneath his scrutiny. And yet, even as he mentally dissected all the ways she’d changed, all the reasons they were more different than ever, his body was telling him to get over there, to pull her tight against him and kiss her until they were both gasping for air.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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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.
