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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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
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
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
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
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
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
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Death Live Man Oneself

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