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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

J. D. Salinger

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
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
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
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
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.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking

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