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Mothers are all slightly insane.

J. D. Salinger

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
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
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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
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
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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself

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