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.
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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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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People never notice anything.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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