I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Quote by J D Salinger

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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do...

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do...

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies,...

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies,...

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it...

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it...

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's...

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that...

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that...

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his...

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his...

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain....

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain....

I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...

I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's...

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even...

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even...

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto...

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto...

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences...

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences...