People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERBut 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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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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.
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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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