You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERThe worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Don’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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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