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Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

J. D. Salinger

Good Night, Stars, Writing

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Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

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Mean, Scared, Feds

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

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Writing, Heard, Euphemism

"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

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Real, Ego, Hobbies

j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

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Sun, Coming Out, Feels

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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Where do the ducks go in the winter?

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Winter, Ducks

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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

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Distance, Blood, Circles

j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

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Used, Reader, Used To Be

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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

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Exclamation Points, Paradise, Observation

J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

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Nice, Needs, Reason

"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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Hands, Worried, Holden

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

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Laughter, Stupid, Mean

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

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Player, Piano, Closets

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

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Stars, Giving, Stories

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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

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Crazy, Lying, Swear To God

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

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Expression, Faces

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Sleep tight, ya morons!

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Goodbye, Sleep, Saying Goodbye

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

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Foxes, Littles, Grapes

j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

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People, Sixteen, Sometimes

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

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Years, Two, Yellow

J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

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Believe, Writing, Responsibility

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if somebody at least listens it not too bad

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Ifs

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

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Suicide, Bitter, Said

j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

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Liars, Memorable, Magazines

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

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Football, Hate, Fall

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Born: January 1, 1919
Died: January 27, 2010
Occupation: Writer
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