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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching 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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

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