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

J. D. Salinger

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
J. D. SALINGER

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

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

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

Girl Herself Time
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
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
J. D. SALINGER

Beautiful Stupidity World
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Education
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness

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

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