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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, 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.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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.
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.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
