I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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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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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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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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He 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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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