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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

- J. D. Salinger

Happiness, I Am, Kind, Plotting

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

- J. D. Salinger

Myself, Like, Publish, Intend

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

- J. D. Salinger

Feel, Some, Been, Stolen

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

- J. D. Salinger

Always, Needs, Quoting, Grant

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

- J. D. Salinger

Peace, Still, Invasion, Marvelous

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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Hate, Call, Morons, Moron

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, Some, His, Perfection

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

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Work, Doing, Kind, Aloof

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

- J. D. Salinger

Stupid, Doing, Very, Hardly

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

- J. D. Salinger

Love, By The Time, Half, Every Time

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

- J. D. Salinger

Fact, Some, Chapters, Catcher In The Rye

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

- J. D. Salinger

Religious, Had, Accuse, Just Something

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

- J. D. Salinger

Book, Knocks, Least, Yours

People never notice anything.

- J. D. Salinger

People, Never, Anything, Notice

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

- J. D. Salinger

Motivational, How, Going, Do You Know

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

- J. D. Salinger

More, Like, Explain, Acted

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

Want, Say, Practically, Understands

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

- J. D. Salinger

Most, Terrific, Ever, Liar

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

- J. D. Salinger

Emotions, Always, Personally, Taking

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

- J. D. Salinger

Respect, I Wish, Could, Liking

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

- J. D. Salinger

Old, Like, Rather, Sake

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

- J. D. Salinger

Girl, Meets, Swell, Gives

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

- J. D. Salinger

Over, Nine, Cries, Phoney

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

- J. D. Salinger

Better, Hard, Than, Roommates

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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Lot, Read, Quite, Illiterate

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

- J. D. Salinger

Love, I Write, I Love, Write

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

- J. D. Salinger

Sick, Absolute, Having, Nobody

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

- J. D. Salinger

Touch, How, Should, Legs

Mothers are all slightly insane.

- J. D. Salinger

Mom, Mothers, Slightly, Insane

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

- J. D. Salinger

Mean, Know, Exactly

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