I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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