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.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Sometimes 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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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