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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinger

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

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
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 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

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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