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

J. D. Salinger

We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
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
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
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
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
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
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.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch

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