I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGERYou’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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