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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

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
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
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

Hell Myself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
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

Death Live Man Oneself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand

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