The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGERHe 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.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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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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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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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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