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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

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

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
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
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Happiness Worst
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

Food Myself Oneself
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Beginning Myself
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
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. SALINGER

Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
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
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
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.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

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

People Rich
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself

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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