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Mothers are all slightly insane.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking 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
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
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
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
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
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand

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