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

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

~ J. D. Salinger

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

~ J. D. Salinger

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

~ J. D. Salinger

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