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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

J. D. Salinger

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

Courage Myself Sickness
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
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
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Art Kind Perfection
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading

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