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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

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Pride Writing
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
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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Art Happiness Worst
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Himself Reality
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
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
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
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
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Kind Perfection
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

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