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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

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

Myself Word
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
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
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER

Listen Music Myself Reading
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
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
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
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

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