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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

J. D. Salinger

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
How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Man Touch
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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People Rich
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Choice Difference Happiness Himself Joy
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
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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Change Love Myself Reason Time
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Death Happiness Lie Myself
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
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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Funny Understand
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself
I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Education Quite Reading
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Age Myself People

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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