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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGER

Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SALINGER

Walk Yourself
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
J. D. SALINGER

Be Yourself Different Myself Sick
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
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER

Act Hate Myself People Thinking
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
J. D. SALINGER

Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk

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