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J. D. Salinger Quotes

«How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.»
«I'd thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.»
Author: J. D. Salinger (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: deaf, mutes
«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.»
Author: J. D. Salinger (Novelist, Writer) | About: Religion | Keywords: accuse, agony, gall, galling
«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.»
«If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Opening line, The Catcher in the Rye)»
«I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.»
«Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello.»
«It's you I hate. You are a snooper and a thief.»
«I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.»

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