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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
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 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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching 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
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
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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

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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