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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

J. D. Salinger

You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
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
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
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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.
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Death Live Man Oneself
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

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