She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGERIt was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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