J. D. Salinger quotes - page 5

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. (J. D. Salinger)
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. View quote
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Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage. View quote
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That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think. View quote
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes. View quote
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. View quote
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. View quote
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness. Not to set up some little cozy, holier-than-thou trysting place with some sticky, adorable divine personage who'll take you in his arms and relieve you of all your duties and make all your nasty Weltschmerzen and Professor Tuppers go away and never come back. And by God, if you have intelligence enough to see that - and you do - and yet you refuse to see it, then you're misusing the prayer, you're using it to ask for a world full of dolls and saints and no Professor Tuppers. View quote
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You raved and you bitched when you came home about the stupidity of audiences. The goddam 'unskilled laughter' coming from the fifth row. And that's right, that's right - God knows it's depressing. I'm not saying it isn't. But that's none of your business, really. That's none of your business, Franny. An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. (J. D. Salinger)