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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Funny Understand
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking 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?
J. D. SALINGER

Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People

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