چیزی که دنبالش می‌گشتم یه جور احساس خدافظی بود. می‌خوام بگم از خیلی مدرسه‌ها و جاهای دیگه رفته‌م بی‌این‌که بدونم دارم واسه همیشه می‌رم. از این خیلی شاکی می‌شم. به درک که خدافظیش غم‌انگیز یا ناجوره ولی وقتی دارم از جایی می‌رم دوس دارم بدونم که دارم می‌رم. آدم اگه ندونه داره واسه همیشه از جایی می‌ره احساسش از خدافظی هم بدتره.


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Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
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Think about this truck. Make believe this is not the darkest, wettest, most miserable Army truck you...
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I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a...
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Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige th...
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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...
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I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
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I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
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If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist...
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You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world...
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
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Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your...
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I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-bloo...
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Give me an honest con man any day.
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You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you ha...
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I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, som...
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I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a whil...
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or s...
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This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.
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The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.
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He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se...
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Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
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John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
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Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic.
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When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
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I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ...
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But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...
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These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...
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If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the w...
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt l...
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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'...
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to ...
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I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
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is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
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When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom wh...
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The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than th...
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That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it whe...
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It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns...
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the sentence im reading is terrific ...
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I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam...
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You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were ha...
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Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi...
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What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I proba...
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That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and ...
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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
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Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if th...
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We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-y...
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I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I ...
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I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I...
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I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn ne...
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You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
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There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks...
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I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could te...
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Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...' J.D. SALINGER I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever tol...
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Do you have any emotions?"
"If I do, I don't remember when I ever used them. I don't see what t...
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He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream--...
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Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.
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Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that br...
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Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
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Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
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My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for poste...
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Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.
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You're just being logical...You're just giving me a regular, intelligent answer. I was trying to hel...
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I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion.
"I beg your pardon?" ...
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You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...
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But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they ...
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That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
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I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak ...
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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the...
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Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey...
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Did you see more glass?
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You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
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You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know w...
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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
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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'...
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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
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We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
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Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
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If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
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People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
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Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
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It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
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I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
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I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
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Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
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Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
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She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
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You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
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Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
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-Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
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If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
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Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
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O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
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People always think something's all true.
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It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
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I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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