I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER
I’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’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 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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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People never notice anything.
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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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