People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGERSometimes 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 don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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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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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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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 sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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