J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."
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J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"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
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"If a body catch a body coming through the rye."
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"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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