J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salingerwas an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1919
CountryUnited States of America
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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
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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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The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
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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?
Yes. That's it. That's the document. Where did you get it?
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Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it?
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Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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?
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We have now reached the point where we are totally sure what we are saying is true.
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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. 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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We don't want to get the Russians involved, but unless the U.S. government cooperates, we may have to.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.