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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

J. D. Salinger

We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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

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