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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.

J. D. Salinger

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’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER

Listen Music Myself Reading
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
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
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
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
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. SALINGER

Pride Writing
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Himself Reality
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading

It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.

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