I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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