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

J. D. Salinger

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
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
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
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.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Age Myself 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
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
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.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
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
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
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
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love

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