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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Walk Yourself
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. SALINGER

Pride Writing
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

Hell Myself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Kind Perfection
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

Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Happiness Worst
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Quite Sarcastic
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself

I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.

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