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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.

J. D. Salinger

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
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.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
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
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
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
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch

Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.

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