If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

—J. D. Salinger

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Jerome David Salinger ( SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A...

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

—J. D. Salinger

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I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

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I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

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

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

—J. D. Salinger

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

—Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

—George Bernard Shaw

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

—Eddie Cantor

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

—Doris Lessing

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

—David Assael

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