I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERPoets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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