I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERIf a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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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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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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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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean 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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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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People never notice anything.
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