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

J. D. Salinger

That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Myself Word
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
J. D. SALINGER

Action Fear Yourself
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
J. D. SALINGER

Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGER

Herself Sun
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
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGER

Exception Herself See Togetherness
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
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
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness

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