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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

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Oneself Stay
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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. SALINGER

Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
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
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
J. D. SALINGER

Be Yourself Different Myself Sick

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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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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