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“As you damned well know, we never change much in our hearts.” (Hapworth 16, 1924 Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“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, 1924
“I am not constructed for continued absences; I have never claimed to be constructed for them.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“I find it magnificent how beautiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“In a cruel manner of speaking, this young woman may well have lost her head before she was born; it is certainly not on her shoulders at this stage of the game.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside, should never do anything extremely important or crucial in their life without first consulting a list of persons in the world, living or dead, whom he loves.” (Hapworth 16, 1924 Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“My God, think of the opportunities and thrusts that lie ahead when one knows without a shred of doubt how commonplace and normal one is at heart!”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“Piled on top of all this good fortune, what else does one find? A capacity to make many wonderful friends in small numbers whom we will love passionately and guard from uninstructive harm until our lives are finished and who, in turn, will love us, too, and never let us down without very great regret, which is a lot better, more guerdoning, more humorous than being let down without any regret at all.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“This is nobody’s fault, swiftly be assured; being human beings with personal opinions and brains, we are respondent to any shreds of beauty we can get; I myself am hopelessly respondent to it!”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“This is of unspeakable importance. Please send any books on the structure of the human heart that I have not read”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people and strangers; it is too risky and inhuman; also the consequences are often painful in a fairly charming way.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
“Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one’s sanity.”
J. D. Salinger
Hapworth 16, 1924
