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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

J. D. Salinger

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
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
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
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
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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