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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I really don't think I'd better.
2 She just didn't know any better.
3 "Old enough to know better," she said.
4 "You better wait in the lobby, fella," he said.
5 I thought I'd be feeling a lot better than I do.
6 He was a much better guy than the other driver I'd had.
7 I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples.
8 The sonuvabitch could whistle better than anybody I ever heard.
9 What made it even better, the new elevator boy was sort of on the stupid side.
10 "M'boy, if I felt any better I'd have to send for the doctor," old Spencer said.
11 She wasn't any good, but she was better than old Tina and Janine, and at least she sang good songs.
12 Then the other one, the one that taught history and government, said they'd better be running along.
13 I swear if there's ever another war, they better just take me out and stick me in front of a firing squad.
14 She told me I could sleep with her if I wanted to, but I said no, that I'd better beat it, that Mr. Antolini was waiting for me and all.
15 Anyway, I couldn't get that off my mind, so finally what I figured I'd do, I figured I'd better sneak home and see her, in case I died and all.
16 You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do.
17 And what made it worse, there were at least a couple of hundred rubbernecks that didn't have anything better to do than stand around and watch everybody falling all over themselves.
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