People are always ruining things for you.
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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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 fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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People never notice anything.
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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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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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