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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

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SALINGER

Walk Yourself
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
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

Funny Understand
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
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?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run

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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