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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

J. D. Salinger

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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
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
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
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 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
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Live Man Oneself
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
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
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

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