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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.

J. D. Salinger

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People 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
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk

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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