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It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
— J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Tags: youth, spontaneity, life

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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink my coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt my door.
— J.D. Salinger
Tags: loves books, introvert, bibliophile
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
— J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Tags: young-adult, school, education
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
— J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey
Tags: education, college
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
— J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Tags: teachers, education, authority
God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!
— J.D. Salinger Hapworth 16
Tags: woman, love, books
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