Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER
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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 true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he 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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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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