But 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.
J. D. SALINGERAn artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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It 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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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People never notice anything.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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