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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

J. D. Salinger

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER

Education
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER

Courage Myself Sickness
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Pride Writing
I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER

Drink Hope Myself Talk
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
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. SALINGER

Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
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
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
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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Funny Understand
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.
J. D. SALINGER

Age Myself People
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER

People Rich

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

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