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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, 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.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
