If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
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Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead Nobody.J. D. Salinger
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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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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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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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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