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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

I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word Writing
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
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
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
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

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