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So we said good-by and all. I told them I'd look them up in Seattle sometime, if I ever got there, but I doubt if I ever will. Look them up, I mean.

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

I danced with them all - the whole three of them - one at a time. The one ugly one, Laverne, wasn't too bad a dancer, bit the other one, Old Marty, was murder. Old Marty was like dragging the Statue of Liberty around the floor.

I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in the truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or they just flew away.

I just thanked her and told her I was going to South America with my grandmother. Which was really a hot one, because my grandmother hardly ever even goes out of the house, except maybe to go to a goddam matinee or something.

Then I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. Just to stop lying. Once I get started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it. No kidding. Hours.

Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

I'd only been in about two fights in my life, and I lost both of them. I'm not too tough. I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth.

I can't really tap-dance or anything, but it was a stone floor in the can, and it was good for tap-dancing.

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.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs―if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do.

I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

Не то чтобы я был от неё без ума, но мы были знакомы сто лет, я по глупости думал, что она довольно умная. А думал я так потому, что она ужасно много знала про театры, про пьесы, вообще про всякую литературу. Когда человек начинен такими знаниями, так не скоро сообразив, глуп он или нет. Я в этой Салли Хейс годами не мог разобраться.

Mothers are all slightly insane.