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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

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
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
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
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
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
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
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
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
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
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

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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