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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

J. D. Salinger

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Exception Herself See Togetherness
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.
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Alone Oneself Stay
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
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
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
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word

I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

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