It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGERI’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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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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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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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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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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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