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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.

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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
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
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
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Death Live Man Oneself
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself

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