You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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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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.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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