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People always clap for the wrong reasons.

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
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
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 could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

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