I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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