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

Teaching Yourself
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SALINGER

Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun 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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGER

Empty Expression Face Herself
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Feeling Myself Run
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

Funny Understand
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word Writing
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Quite Sarcastic

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

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