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- If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around,…
- An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
- Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's…
- It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
- It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just…
- But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too…
- It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.
- If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply…
- 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…
- Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no…
- When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only,…
- I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their…
- You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven…
- He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had…
- You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling…
- Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational…
- After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
- 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…
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