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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

I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
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
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear 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
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
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
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
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

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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