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J. D. Salinger

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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Hell Myself
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
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

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