Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just 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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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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