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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I mean you've seen it on the newsreels. I mean you've heard it on the radio and all, haven't you? — J.D. Salinger
All mothers are slightly insane.
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I felt like giving old Jane a buzz
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
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It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
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But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to catch whom.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
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Oh ... It's too long a story. I never bore people I haven't know for at least a thousand years.
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You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.
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Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
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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. — J.D. Salinger
Give me an honest con man any day.
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That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you.
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Are all your stars shining?
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It would not interfere with your being a nun. I live like an evil-minded monk myself.
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It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it.
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And for some reason he had an unfolded white handkerchief draped over his head, possibly to ward off rain, or hail, or brimstone.
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After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances ... I may be an orange peel.
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You beautiful little moron.
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He could hear me alright ... but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you right away.
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I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months?
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You're a student - whether that idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge.
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Mrs. Glass watched him pull it on. She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.Instead, she left the room. — J.D. Salinger
Indeed, all forms of human folly and beastiality touch a very symphathetic chord within our breasts!
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One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!
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I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
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This is of unspeakable importance. Please send any books on the structure of the human heart that I have not read
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I said no, there would't be marvelous places to go to after I went to college and all. Open your ears. It'd be entirely different.
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They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.
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Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are!
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He told me to be funny for the Fat Lady, once.
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I am not constructed for continued absences; I have never claimed to be constructed for them.
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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield
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A woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right
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I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.
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[ ... ] don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? ... Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
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I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people ... Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating.
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She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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Where you girls from? Don't answer if you don't feel like it. I don't want you to strain yourself.
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Am I very late?" she asked the Chief, smiling at him. She might just as well have asked if she was ugly. "No!" the Chief said.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
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For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree.
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Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don't just go up to somebody and say, 'You're a terrific whistler.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, ... ,and he had very red hair.
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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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But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
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I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
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This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
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What do they do with those ducks, in the winter?
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He calls me Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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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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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
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I like to chew candles.
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if somebody at least listens it not too bad
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I think he was pretty surprised to hear from me. I once called him a fat-assed phony.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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