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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

J. D. Salinger

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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
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 not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
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

You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

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