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

J. D. Salinger

I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Age Myself People
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
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
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
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
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 love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself 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
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.
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Alone Oneself Stay
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity

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