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

J. D. Salinger

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
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Teaching Yourself
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
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
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Live Man Oneself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
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
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
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
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People

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

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