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.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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