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    J. D. Salinger

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    Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #hard #much #people #really #roommates

    I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #illiterate #lot #quite #read

    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

    #agony #created #did #gall #god

    How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it? ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #going #how #know #something #you

    It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #doing #even #hardly #i #know

    People never believe you. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #never #people #you

    You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #cries #eyes #goddam #heart #mean

    People never notice anything. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #never #notice #people

    They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. ↗


    — J. D. Salinger

    #acted #celebrities #explain #good #hard

    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

    #funny #nobody #practically #say #something






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    In 1953 he moved from an apartment at 300 East 57th Street New York to Cornish New Hampshire. Ian Hamilton adheres to this view arguing that while Salinger's early stories for the "slicks" boasted "tight energetic" dialogue they had also been formulaic and sentimental. Rust Hills 1959)
    "Slight Rebellion off Madison" (1946 republiJ. D. Salingerd in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker ed.

    In 1948 his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine which became home to much of his later work. His last publiJ. D. Salingerd original work was in 1965 and his last interview in 1980. In 1951 his novel The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success.

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