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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
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER

Hell Myself
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Herself Sun
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing 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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGER

One Liner Philosophy
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
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Art Happiness Worst
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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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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