You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGERThat’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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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’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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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