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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.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Happiness Worst
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

Food Myself Oneself
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
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGER

Empty Expression Face Herself
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGER

Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

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

People 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
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Quite Sarcastic
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Feeling Myself Run

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

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