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J. D. Salinger

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars 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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
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
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right

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