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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

J. D. Salinger

People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
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 true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

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