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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

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
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
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
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Walk 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
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity

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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