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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.

J. D. Salinger

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

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

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
J. D. SALINGER

Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word Writing
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

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

People Rich
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Choice Material Poet True
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

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

People Yourself

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