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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
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
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
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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
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
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity

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