He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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People never notice anything.
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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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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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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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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