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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.

J. D. Salinger

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.

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