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J. D. Salinger

How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
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
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
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
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich

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