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People always clap for the wrong reasons.

J. D. Salinger

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

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

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

Attitude Himself Reality
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Myself Stupidity
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
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

Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing

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