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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

J. D. Salinger

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
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

Peace Place Yourself
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
J. D. SALINGER

Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
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.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time

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