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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

J. D. Salinger

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.
J. D. SALINGER

Alone Oneself Stay
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Emotion Poet
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
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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Hands Happiness Worry Yourself
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Girl Herself Time
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Talk Teaching Thinking Yourself
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Time World Yourself
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Act Hate Myself People Thinking
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
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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

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