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“It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

— J.D. Salinger

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J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

“It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

— J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

J.D. Salinger Quote: “It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn’t stop! I just could not stop picking!”

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3. “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”

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4. “Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”

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5. “Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”

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6. “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

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7. “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

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8. “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”

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9. “Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

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10. “Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

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11. “THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

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12. “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

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13. “You can’t miss what you never had.”

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14. “Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.”

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15. “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow what a ride!”

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17. “Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”

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18. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

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19. “America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”

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20. “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

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21. “Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”

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22. “Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

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23. “Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

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24. “There is no story unless you’ve written it.”

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25. “On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”

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26. “The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

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27. “Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.”

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28. “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

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29. “As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.”

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30. “I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.”

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31. “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”

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32. “It never got weird enough for me.”

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33. “Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”

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34. “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

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35. “You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”

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36. “I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

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37. “If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don’t have to worry about the answers.”

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38. “For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”

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39. “It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”

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40. “Kill the body and the head will die.”

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41. “Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I’d probably miss if I stayed straight.”

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42. “I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”

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43. “There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.”

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45. “There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says ‘Good people drink good beer.’ Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.”

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46. “Good people drink good beer.”

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47. “We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”

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48. “As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”

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