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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
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Results from Classic Quotes:

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - ), The Catcher in the Rye, opening line
It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - ), Catcher In the Rye

Results from Cole's Quotables:

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:

I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.: J.D.Salinger, Seymour:An Introduction

Results from Contributed Quotations:

I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - ), Franny and Zooey Pg. 30
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, The Catcher in the Rye

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