I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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