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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.

J. D. Salinger

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Pride Writing
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
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
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 don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
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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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
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
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
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.

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