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Do you know what i was smiling at? you wrote down that you were a writer by profession. it sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism i had ever heard. when was writing ever your profession? it's never been anything but your religion.
-J. D. Salinger
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Do You Know What I Was Smiling

J. D. Salinger
Do you know what i was smiling at? you wrote down that you were a writer by profession. it sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism i had ever heard. when was writing ever your profession? it's never been anything but your religion.
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