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

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

—J. D. Salinger

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He was sitting at the table in the kitchen, all by himself, drinking a glass of ginger ale and eating saltines and reading Dombey and Son, and all of a sudden Jesus sat down in the other chair and asked if he could have a small glass of ginger ale. A small glass mind you.

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

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

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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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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

—James Thurber

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

—Jean Rostand

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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

—Gertrude Stein

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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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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

—Wilson Mizner

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