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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

J. D. Salinger

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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
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.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
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
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
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
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
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
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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