Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGERI 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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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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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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