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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

J. D. Salinger

People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
J. D. SALINGER

Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGER

Funny Understand
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGER

Attitude Himself Reality
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Attitude Right
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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