There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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