She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGERAn 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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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