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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

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
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

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

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

Myself Word Writing
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Attitude Right
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 are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER

Missing Start Yourself
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Himself Reality
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
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

Pride Writing
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
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

Alone Oneself Stay
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

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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