She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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 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 was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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People never notice anything.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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