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Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. - D. Salinger Quotes

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they’re all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me. - D. Salinger Quotes

I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they’re all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

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. - D. Salinger Quotes

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.

American Novelist Life

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. - D. Salinger Quotes

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

American Novelist

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - D. Salinger Quotes

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

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The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them. - D. Salinger Quotes

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.

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

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

Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? - D. Salinger Quotes

Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - D. Salinger Quotes

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

American Novelist Girls

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger. - D. Salinger Quotes

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

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