I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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That’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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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