I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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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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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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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 sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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