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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
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
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
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
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
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry 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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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

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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