You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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People never notice anything.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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