Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
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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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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’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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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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