Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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People never notice anything.
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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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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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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 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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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