She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like 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 exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Who wants flowers when youre dead? Nobody.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.
~ J.D. Salinger

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It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something’s all true.
~ J.D. Salinger

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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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