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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Drink Hope Myself Talk
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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
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
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

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