I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERDon’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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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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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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That’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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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