People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
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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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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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People never notice anything.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear 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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