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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

J. D. Salinger

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
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
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
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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 scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
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
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
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

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

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