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.
J. D. SALINGER
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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People never notice anything.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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