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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J. D. Salinger

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGER

Funny Understand
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER

God Myself Respect Sick
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet

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