Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGERBut 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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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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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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People never notice anything.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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 worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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