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People are always ruining things for you.

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 sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER

God Myself Respect Sick
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

Beginning Myself
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Stupidity
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotional God Love
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
J. D. SALINGER

Lie Life Music Myself Travel
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGER

Empty Expression Face Herself
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Happiness Love Myself Writing
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness

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