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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

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
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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Alone Oneself Stay
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Teaching Yourself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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
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
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
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
People are always ruining things for you.
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People Ruin Yourself
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking 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
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People Yourself
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity

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