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

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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
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 mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People

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

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