I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGERI told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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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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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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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