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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.

J. D. Salinger

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
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
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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Beautiful Stupidity World
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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Cold Crazy Kind Road Sun Time
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Attitude Right
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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Death Live Man Oneself
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Myself Word
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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Act Hate Myself Person Remember Talk
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
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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Change Love Myself Reason Time
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch

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 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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