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

J. D. Salinger

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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
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’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
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
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
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

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

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