Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
("The Catcher in the Rye")
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I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.J.D. Salinger
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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Oh, I don't know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don't know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.
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I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
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You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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