365 Quotes by J. D. Salinger


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    An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

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    It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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    probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that

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    I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

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    His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

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