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J. D. Salinger

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
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
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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
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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
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
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
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
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
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Age Myself People

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