J. D. Salinger Quotes

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

J. D. Salinger

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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

Carlene Carter
- Girl
- Always
- Made
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer
- Responsibility
- Creativity
But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

T Bone Burnett
- People
- Country
- War
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

Edmund Phelps
- Employment
- Economists
My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

Lake Bell
- Thinking
- Happy
- Emotional
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

Octavio Paz
- World
- Man
- Mirror