People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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