People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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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’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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