Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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 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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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