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

J. D. Salinger

I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Death Live Man Oneself
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy

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