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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

J. D. Salinger

I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGER

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

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

Education
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
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
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

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