8 Quotes by J. D. Salinger about men

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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 known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

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    Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

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    You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

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    I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

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    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.

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