Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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