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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinger

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education

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