J. D. Salinger Quotes

If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

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• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

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• I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

  

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• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

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• I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

  

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• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

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• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

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• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

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• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

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• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

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• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

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• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

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• I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

  

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• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

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• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

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• I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

  

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• I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

  

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• The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

  

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• If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Long
  • Hate