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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
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word Writing
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Oneself Stay
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
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
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
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
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
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

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