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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

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Hell Myself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
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
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
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

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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