I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he 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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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People never notice anything.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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