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.
J. D. SALINGERDo you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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 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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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