An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

—J. D. Salinger

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Jerome David Salinger ( SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A...

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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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He was sitting at the table in the kitchen, all by himself, drinking a glass of ginger ale and eating saltines and reading Dombey and Son, and all of a sudden Jesus sat down in the other chair and asked if he could have a small glass of ginger ale. A small glass mind you.

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

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

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I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

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