I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGERNobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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