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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.

J. D. Salinger

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
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.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
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 quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk

I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.

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