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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
Explore more quotes by J. D. Salinger
"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
"I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."
"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."
"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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