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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

People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
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
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
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
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
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGER

Peace Place 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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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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