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.
J. D. SALINGERWe 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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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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.
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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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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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 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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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