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.
J. D. SALINGERI love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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