J. D. Salinger Quotes
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
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Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
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I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.
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You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
