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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

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
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
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
J. D. SALINGER

Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Myself Phone Time Word
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
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.
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Pride Writing
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Job Laugh Listen
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.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun

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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