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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

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
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 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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER

Missing Start Yourself
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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 can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself

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