You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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It 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 one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear 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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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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