How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead Nobody.J. D. Salinger
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. Salinger
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. Salinger
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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