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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.

J. D. Salinger

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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Hands Human Myself Scars Touch
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Laugh Marriage Yourself
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Carry Emotional Heaven Imaginational Stupidity
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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
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
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
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Pride Writing
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick

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