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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.

J. D. Salinger

Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
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
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
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 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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
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 up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word 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
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch

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