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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.

J. D. Salinger

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Death Live Man Oneself
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
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
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness

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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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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