I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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 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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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