Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I 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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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