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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

J. D. Salinger

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. SALINGER

Pride Writing
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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Peace Place Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGER

Empty Expression Face Herself
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGER

Funny Understand
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Myself Phone Time Word
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
J. D. SALINGER

Beautiful Stupidity World
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
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

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGER

Exception Herself See Togetherness
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Kind Perfection
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

Food Myself Oneself
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER

Listen Music Myself Reading

You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

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