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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGER

Peace Place Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Word Writing
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGER

Feeling Myself Run
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch
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
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
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
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
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Myself People Scars Touch
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
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
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 could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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