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Where do the ducks go in the winter?

J. D. Salinger

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage 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
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
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
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 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
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
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

Where do the ducks go in the winter?

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