The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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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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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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 don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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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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