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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

J. D. Salinger

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

Attitude Right
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER

Listen Music Myself Reading
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
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?
J. D. SALINGER

Action Fear Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
J. D. SALINGER

Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness

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