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

  

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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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• Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.

  

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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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• I don't have any regrets at all.

  

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• I want to fit everything I love in my daily routine.

  

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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
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