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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.

J. D. Salinger

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

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

Choice Material Poet True
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
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
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
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
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.

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