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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

J. D. Salinger

Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
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
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
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
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
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
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
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

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

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