People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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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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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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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