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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

J. D. Salinger

I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGER

Bad Feeling Sun
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Myself Phone Time Word
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
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
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Live Man Oneself
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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People

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