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People are always ruining things for you.

J. D. Salinger

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Myself Stupidity
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Right
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
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
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True

People are always ruining things for you.

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