I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERIt was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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 sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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