I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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