A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
--J.D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
--J.D. Salinger
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.
--J.D. Salinger
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
--J.D. Salinger
Give me an honest con man any day.
--J.D. Salinger
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
--J.D. Salinger
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
--J.D. Salinger
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
--J.D. Salinger
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
--J.D. Salinger
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
--J.D. Salinger
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
--J.D. Salinger
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
--J.D. Salinger
It's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
--J.D. Salinger
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
--J.D. Salinger
Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
--J.D. Salinger
Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
--J.D. Salinger
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
--J.D. Salinger
Money always ends up making you blue.
--J.D. Salinger
Mothers are all slightly insane.
--J.D. Salinger
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
--J.D. Salinger
People are always ruining things for you.
--J.D. Salinger
Poets are always taking the weather so personally.
--J.D. Salinger
Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
--J.D. Salinger
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
--J.D. Salinger
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has- I'm not kidding.
--J.D. Salinger
There are still a few men who love desperately.
--J.D. Salinger
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
--J.D. Salinger
You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
--J.D. Salinger
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