Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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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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It 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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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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People never notice anything.
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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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