That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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 love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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