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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.

J. D. Salinger

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 one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER

Food Myself Oneself
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGER

Exception Herself See Togetherness
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER

Laugh Marriage Yourself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

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

Man Touch
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
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 was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SALINGER

Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
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

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