I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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People never notice anything.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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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’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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I 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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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