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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

J. D. Salinger

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
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
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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
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 sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World 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
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
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
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

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