Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.


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'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. ...
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'I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?
J. D. SALINGER
What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left ...
J. D. SALINGER
People never believe you.
J. D. SALINGER
To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it rea...
J. D. SALINGER
This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling ...
J. D. SALINGER
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible inv...
J. D. SALINGER
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and up...
J. D. VANCE
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a...
J. D. SALINGER
I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government larges...
J. D. VANCE
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull...
J. D. VANCE
In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br...
J. D. VANCE
I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. SOUTHER
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think...
J. D. SOUTHER
I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th...
J. D. VANCE
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose...
J. D. VANCE
It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ...
J. D. VANCE
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER
I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. ...
J. D. SALINGER
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER
How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J. D. SALINGER
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it
J. D. SALINGER
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J. D. SALINGER
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...
J. D. SALINGER
Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h...
J. D. SALINGER
Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma...
J. D. SALINGER
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. SALINGER
It's no fun to be yellow.
J. D. SALINGER
People never notice anything.
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
Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER
How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER
I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER
Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
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