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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.

J. D. Salinger

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
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
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
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
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
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
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
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
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
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
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself

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