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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

J. D. Salinger

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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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Animal One Liner Winter
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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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Myself Stupidity Thinking Yourself
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
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
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
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Death Forgiveness Himself Kindness
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 could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

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