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

J. D. Salinger

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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?
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Action Fear Yourself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
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 quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
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.
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Lie Life Music Myself Travel
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter

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

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