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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J. D. Salinger

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Happiness Worry 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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
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
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself

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