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.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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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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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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 just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about 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’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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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