The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERPeople always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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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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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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 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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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 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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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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