People are always ruining things for you.
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 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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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