I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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People never notice anything.
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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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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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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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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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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 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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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