Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGERSometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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