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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

J. D. Salinger

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

Death Live Man Oneself
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
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
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself

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