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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Selling his new book about this phony baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nut bag terrorists think.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
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When the opening verses of Genesis say that we were created in the image and likeness of God, it is helpful to remember that this means we are actually created in the image and likeness of LOVE. We were created by love. We were created to receive love. We were created to reflect love. Our entire purpose for existing is to love.
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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.
