You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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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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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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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