I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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J.D. Salinger
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Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.

By J.D. Salinger

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

By J.D. Salinger

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

By J.D. Salinger

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

By J.D. Salinger

It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you

By J.D. Salinger

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.

By J.D. Salinger

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

By J.D. Salinger

That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't

By J.D. Salinger