People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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