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  • #1
    William Golding
    “Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
    William Golding

  • #2
    William Golding
    “What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?”
    William Golding

  • #3
    William Golding
    “What I mean is... maybe it's only us...”
    William Golding , Lord of the Flies

  • #4
    William Golding
    “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.”
    William Golding

  • #5
    William Golding
    “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #6
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #7
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #8
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    J. D. Salinger

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
    J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #10
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #11
    J.D. Salinger
    “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #12
    J.D. Salinger
    “It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #13
    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #14
    J.D. Salinger
    “Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #15
    J.D. Salinger
    “when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #16
    J.D. Salinger
    “People are always ruining things for you.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #17
    J.D. Salinger
    “And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #18
    J.D. Salinger
    “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #19
    J.D. Salinger
    “It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
    J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #20
    J.D. Salinger
    “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #21
    J.D. Salinger
    “It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #22
    J.D. Salinger
    “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #23
    J.D. Salinger
    “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #24
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #25
    Douglas Coupland
    “TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
    Douglas Coupland, JPod

  • #26
    Douglas Coupland
    “We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
    Douglas Coupland

  • #27
    Douglas Coupland
    “Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
    Douglas Coupland, JPod

  • #28
    Douglas Coupland
    “All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”
    Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic

  • #29
    Douglas Coupland
    “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”
    Douglas Coupland

  • #30
    Douglas Coupland
    “I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
    Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief



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