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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason 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.
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Hell Myself
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
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
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.

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