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.
J. D. SALINGERI mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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