693 Quotes by J.D. Salinger

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    Wow. Death by books. That would have been some way to go.

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    The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody’d say something smarter than he had.

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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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    It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer’s feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

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    Don’t tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

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    You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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    If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.

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    For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

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    I don’t even know what I was running for – I guess I just felt like it.

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