You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERSometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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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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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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