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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.

J. D. Salinger

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
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Hell Myself
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
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
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
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
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

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