Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERPeople 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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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