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People always clap for the wrong reasons.

J. D. Salinger

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Hell Myself
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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

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