J. D. Salinger Quotes

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

J. D. Salinger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010

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TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Jillian Bach

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Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Joel Osteen

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We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

John Dean

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In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.

John Fusco

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Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.

Alvaro Enrigue

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I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.

Stephanie Courtney

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When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

Steven Erikson

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I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Tom T. Hall

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Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

Robert Atkins

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Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

Ritchie Blackmore

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It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

Don Ellis

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