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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.

J. D. Salinger

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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
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
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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.
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Death Live Man Oneself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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
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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself

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