J. D. Salinger Quotes
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 so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.
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The three discrete invariances - reflection invariance, charge conjugation invariance, and time reversal invariance - are connected by an important theorem called the CPT theorem.
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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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 so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
