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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

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

Education Quite Reading
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Time World Yourself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Girl Herself Time
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
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich
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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage 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.
J. D. SALINGER

Change Love Myself Reason Time
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
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGER

Exception Herself See Togetherness
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
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Teaching Yourself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy

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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