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.
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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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People never notice anything.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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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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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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