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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGER

Bad Feeling Sun
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER

Missing Start Yourself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Happiness Worst
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Attitude Right
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 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.
J. D. SALINGER

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGER

Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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