Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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