Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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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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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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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 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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People never notice anything.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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