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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?

J. D. Salinger

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
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
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
J. D. SALINGER

Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself 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
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
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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 one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

Food Myself Oneself
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

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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