Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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 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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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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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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