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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
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
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
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
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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 sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness

I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

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