J. D. Salinger Quotes

It naturally follows that the creature you love next best is the person - the God-lover or God-hater (almost never, apparently, anything in between), the saint or profligate, moralist or complete immoralist - who can write a poem that is a poem.

J. D. Salinger

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Lights

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Moving
  • Thought
  • Worries

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Body
  • Human

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Love
  • Done
  • Small

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Song

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• The Beatles' story is all of our stories.

  

  Bob Spitz
  • Story
  • Beatles

• He Manet holds up that eternal Mademoiselle Gonzales as an example; she has poise, perseverance, she can get her things finished whereas I am incapable of doing anything properly. In the meantime he Manet has started her portrait again, for the twenty-fifth time. She poses every day, and every night he rubs out the head..

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Friends

• It naturally follows that the creature you love next best is the person - the God-lover or God-hater (almost never, apparently, anything in between), the saint or profligate, moralist or complete immoralist - who can write a poem that is a poem.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God