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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

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
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
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

Live Love People Strong Talk World 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.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Myself Stupidity
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
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
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself

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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