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.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Sometimes 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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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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 mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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Do 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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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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