J. D. Salinger Quotes
He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
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God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
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He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.
