I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERShe was not one for emptying her face of expression.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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 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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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It’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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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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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