I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGERBut it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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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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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’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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