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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.

J. D. Salinger

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Live Man Oneself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Walk Yourself
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality

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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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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