It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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