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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.

J. D. Salinger

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
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
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
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
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.

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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.

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