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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

J. D. Salinger

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
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SALINGER

Walk Yourself
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGER

Herself Sun
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGER

People Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

Hell Myself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGER

Empty Expression Face Herself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGER

Bad Feeling Sun

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

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