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.
J. D. SALINGERAn 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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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