I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGERI’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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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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That’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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you 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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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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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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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