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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

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
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
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
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
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
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
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
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

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

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