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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.

J. D. Salinger

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
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
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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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 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
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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

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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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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