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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

J. D. Salinger

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Oneself Stay
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SALINGER

Walk Yourself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGER

People Reason Wrong
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGER

Peace Place Yourself
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGER

Herself Sun
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Girl Herself Time
Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER

Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGER

Talk
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER

Emotion Poet
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGER

Hate Myself Phone Time Word
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. SALINGER

Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGER

Time World Yourself
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER

Death Happiness Lie Myself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER

Man Touch

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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