People never notice anything.
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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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 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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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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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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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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