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 history. It’s poetry. - J. D. Salinger
It’s history. It’s poetry.
- J. D. Salinger
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly - J. D. Salinger
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
All morons hate it when you call them a moron. - J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do. - J. D. Salinger
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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. - J. D. Salinger
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.
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 th… - J. D. Salinger
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 th…
The world is full of actors pretending to be human - J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. - J. D. Salinger
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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