Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERI have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I 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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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