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.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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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