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.
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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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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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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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.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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