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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Courage Myself Sickness
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Education
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
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
Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGER

People Stupidity
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner People
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
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.
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Walk 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

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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