I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGERThe worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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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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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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