I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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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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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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