That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERI’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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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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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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