I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGERI hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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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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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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