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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

J. D. Salinger

People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
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
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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGER

Funny Understand
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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