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.
J. D. SALINGERThat’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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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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 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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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