Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERIt’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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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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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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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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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 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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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