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.
J. D. SALINGERYou 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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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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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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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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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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People never notice anything.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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