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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

J. D. Salinger

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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear 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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
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
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
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
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself

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