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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

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’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place 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
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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