Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERIt was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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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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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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