She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGERHe 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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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