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

J. D. Salinger

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
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
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
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
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
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
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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

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

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