People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERI’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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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.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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