J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs."
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Suitcases
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Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"For life is holy and every moment is precious."
George Will
Political Commentator, Author
"In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure."
Paige Davis
Dancer
"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."
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"I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used."
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"Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase."
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"No one has ever put anything into my suitcase."
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"My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod."
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"Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you."
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"Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases."
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"One thing you can't miss in your suitcase is a hat."
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"After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases."
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