I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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