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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.


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J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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J. D. SALINGER Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it
J. D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J. D. SALINGER It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...
J. D. SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h...
J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma...
J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow.
J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
J D GABRIEL Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo...
J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. SALINGER Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac...
J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello.
J. D. SALINGER