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J. D. Salinger
January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

   

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

   

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

   

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

   

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

   

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

   

People never believe you.

   

Mothers are all slightly insane.

   

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

   

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

   

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

   

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

   

People never notice anything.

   

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

   

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

   

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

   

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

   

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

   

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

   

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

   

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