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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

I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Walk 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 just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
People are always ruining things for you.
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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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word

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

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