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

J. D. Salinger

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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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