Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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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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