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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

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
J. D. SALINGER

Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word Writing
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGER

Bad Feeling Sun
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity

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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