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Mothers are all slightly insane.

J. D. Salinger

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching 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 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
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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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Funny Understand
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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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Listen Music Myself Reading
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word

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