The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGERPeople always clap for the wrong reasons.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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People never notice anything.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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