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

J. D. Salinger

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
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People 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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
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

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