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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.

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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate 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
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
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
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk

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