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.
J. D. SALINGERI could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Sometimes 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 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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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