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.
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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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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People never notice anything.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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