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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.

J. D. Salinger

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

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

Education
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
J. D. SALINGER

Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
J. D. SALINGER

Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
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
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.

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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.

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