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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.

J. D. Salinger

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People 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.
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Death Live Man Oneself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
J. D. SALINGER

Be Yourself Different Myself Sick

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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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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