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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage 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?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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