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J. D. Salinger

There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
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
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
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin 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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch

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