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I'd swear to god, if i were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought i was terrific, i'd hate it. i wouldn't even want them to clap for me. people always clap for the wrong things. if i were a piano player, i'd play it in the goddam closet.

-J. D. Salinger

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I'd Swear To God, If I Were

J. D. Salinger

I'd swear to god, if i were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought i was terrific, i'd hate it. i wouldn't even want them to clap for me. people always clap for the wrong things. if i were a piano player, i'd play it in the goddam closet.

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I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. i hate the way you drive my car. i hate it when you stare. i hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. i hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. i hate it, i hate the way you're always right. i hate it when you lie. i hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. i hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. but mostly i hate the way i don't hate you. not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

She was terrific to hold hands with. most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. jane was different. we'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. and without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. you never even worried, with jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. all you knew was, you were happy. you really were.

I was born with the wrong sign in the wrong house with the wrong ascendancy i took the wrong road that led to the wrong tendencies i was in the wrong place at the wrong time for the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme on the wrong day of the wrong week used the wrong method with the wrong technique wrong wrong.

It’s wrong to hate. it always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! it’s wrong in america, it’s wrong in germany, it’s wrong in russia, it’s wrong in china! it was wrong in two thousand b.c., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four a.d.! it always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!

If i were a piano player, i'd play it in the goddam closet.

I decided that i want to live the rest of my life happy with what i'm doing. so when i play tennis again, i have to play it for the right reason. i don't want to play to get my no. 1 ranking back. i don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. i don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. i only want to play because i love the game, which is the reason i began to play at age seven in the first place.

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