Life is a game. Life is a game that one plays according to rules.
("The Catcher in the Rye")
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Did you know, God damn it, that Les was all for bringing a tangerine in to you last night before he went to bed? My God. Even Bessie can't stand stories with tangerines in them. And God knows I can't. If you're going to go on with this breakdown business, I wish to hell you'd go back to college to have it. Where you're not the baby of the family. And where, God knows, nobody'll have any urges to bring you any tangerines. And where you don't keep your goddam tap shoes in the closet.
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She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good looking.
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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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She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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