Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGERI’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 don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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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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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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