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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.


J. D. Souther

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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 For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou...
J. D. VANCE 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 We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere...
J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio...
J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev...
J. D. VANCE 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 I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa...
J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe...
J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif...
J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w...
J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ...
J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ...
J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme...
J. D. VANCE Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello.
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