If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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 don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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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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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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