American - Novelist | January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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People never notice anything.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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