People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERNobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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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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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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