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

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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Some people you shouldn’t kid, even if they deserve it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
~ J.D. Salinger

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