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

J. D. Salinger

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER

Mindset True
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER

People Ruin Yourself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Bad Feeling Sun
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
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’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGER

Job Laugh Listen
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
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
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Laugh Myself Stupidity

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

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

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