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

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
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset 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
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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
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’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 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

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