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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

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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
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
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Girl Herself Time
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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.
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Pride Writing
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Teaching Yourself
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

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