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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

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?
J. D. SALINGER

Action Fear Yourself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
J. D. SALINGER

Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER

God Myself Respect Sick
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

Food Myself Oneself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGER

Herself Sun
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
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

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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