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Sleep tight, ya morons!

J. D. Salinger

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

Hell Myself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
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
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
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.
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Walk Yourself
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself

Sleep tight, ya morons!

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