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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

J. D. Salinger

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
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
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Happiness Myself People
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
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Hate Stupidity
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mad Mom One Liner Sanity
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
I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Myself Quite Sarcastic
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
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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Easy Family Hairs Himself Mad People
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen

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