Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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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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People never notice anything.
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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