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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
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
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
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Death Live Man Oneself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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