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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.

J. D. Salinger

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World 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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
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
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGER

Bad Feeling Sun

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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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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