People always clap for the wrong reasons.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
~ J.D. Salinger

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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger

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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
~ J.D. Salinger

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I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
~ J.D. Salinger

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