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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J. D. Salinger

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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Age Myself People
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself

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