Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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 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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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