I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERYou 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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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People never notice anything.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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