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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.

J. D. Salinger

Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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 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
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
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing

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