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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.

J. D. Salinger

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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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Beautiful Stupidity World
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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.
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Walk Yourself
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Hell Myself
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet

I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.

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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.

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