J. D. Salinger Quotes About Ego
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But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
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This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
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