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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
