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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

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
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
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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Beautiful Stupidity World
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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People 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
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.
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Age Myself People
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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