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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

J. D. Salinger

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
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

Hell Myself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
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
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’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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGER

Bad Feeling Sun
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Quite Sarcastic

I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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