Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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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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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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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