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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

J. D. Salinger

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

People Rich
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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER

Missing Start Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
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

Art Kind Perfection
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGER

Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
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
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
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.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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