That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People never notice anything.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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