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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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.
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
