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 Current Search - Maybe in The Catcher in the Rye
1  Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow.
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2  "Maybe because it's around Christmas," I said.
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3  "I think maybe I'll take a fast shave," he said.
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4  Anyway, I thought maybe he might know about the ducks.
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5  They were around my age, or maybe just a little older.
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6  Maybe he was only patting my head just for the hell of it.
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7  He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe.
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8  Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't been all out of breath.
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9  Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.
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10  Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them.
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11  I thought of maybe hanging up if my parents answered, but that wouldn't've worked, either.
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12  I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.
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13  I figured my parents probably wouldn't get old Thurmer's letter saying I'd been given the ax till maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.
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14  Which was really a hot one, because my grandmother hardly ever even goes out of the house, except maybe to go to a goddam matinee or something.
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15  My father wants me to go to Yale, or maybe Princeton, but I swear, I wouldn't go to one of those Ivy League colleges, if I was dying, for God's sake.
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16  I didn't have a date or anything, so I and this friend of mine, Mal Brossard, that was on the wrestling team, decided we'd take a bus into Agerstown and have a hamburger and maybe see a lousy movie.
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17  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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