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

J. D. Salinger

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

Man Touch
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

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

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

Choice Material Poet True
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Myself Stupidity
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

Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
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
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
J. D. SALINGER

Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Feeling Myself Run
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
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

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