She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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