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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

J. D. Salinger

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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Live Man Oneself
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
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.
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Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
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
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
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Myself Phone Time Word
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People

Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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