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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

J. D. Salinger

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Be Yourself Different Myself Sick

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

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