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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Live Man Oneself
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 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’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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 could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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