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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

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
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
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Myself Stupidity
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
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
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.
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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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

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.

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