I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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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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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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