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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.

J. D. Salinger

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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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
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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Live Love People Strong Talk World Yourself
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
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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Exception Herself See Togetherness
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
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
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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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