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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

J. D. Salinger

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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Change Love Myself Reason Time
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
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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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
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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Art Kind Perfection
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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.
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Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself

I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

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