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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
