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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

J. D. Salinger

Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
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
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
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
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
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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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Alone Oneself Stay
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
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

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