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People always clap for the wrong reasons.

J. D. Salinger

Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
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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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word

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