Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
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People never notice anything.
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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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 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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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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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