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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

J. D. Salinger

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGER

Animal One Liner Winter
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Myself Phone Time Word
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Material Poet True
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER

Education Quite Reading
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGER

Art Kind Perfection
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Death Happiness Lie Myself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. SALINGER

Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGER

Myself Quite Sarcastic
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER

Happiness Myself People
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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