J. D. Salinger Quotes
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I'm not a Republican.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.
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Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
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My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
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Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
