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People are always ruining things for you.

J. D. Salinger

I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
J. D. SALINGER

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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 could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself

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