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. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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