We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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 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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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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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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