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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.

J. D. Salinger

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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 don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
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
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
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
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
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
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality

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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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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