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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

J. D. Salinger

I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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.
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Death Live Man Oneself
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

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