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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

We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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.
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Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SALINGER

Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk

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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