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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

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER

Listen Music Myself Reading
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?
J. D. SALINGER

Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
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 true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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 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
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
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
J. D. SALINGER

Change Love Myself Reason Time

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