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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

J. D. Salinger

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Walk Yourself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Age Myself People
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
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

You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

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