Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that brown-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me nobody wore those kind of dresses in New York, and I cried all night?" Eloise shook Mary Jane's arm. "I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?


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Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
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Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER
My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for poste...
J.D. SALINGER
Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.
J.D. SALINGER
You're just being logical...You're just giving me a regular, intelligent answer. I was trying to hel...
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I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion.
"I beg your pardon?" ...
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You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...
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But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they ...
J.D. SALINGER
That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
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I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak ...
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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the...
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Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey...
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Did you see more glass?
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You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
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You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know w...
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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
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We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER
Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
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If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER
People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER
Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER
I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
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I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER
It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
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Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
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Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
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She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
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You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
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Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
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-Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
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If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
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Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
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O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
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People always think something's all true.
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It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
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I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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