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People always clap for the wrong reasons.

J. D. Salinger

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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
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.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Be Yourself Different Myself Sick

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