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

J. D. Salinger

I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
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
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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 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
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself

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