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

J. D. Salinger

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Teaching Yourself
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
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER

God Myself Respect Sick
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER

Missing Start Yourself
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

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

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