Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGERIf a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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