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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.
I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).
Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.
If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.
God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.
I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]
This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.
I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.
Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.