You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGERDid 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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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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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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