FATHER in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 My father's quite wealthy, though.
2 Her mother and father were divorced.
3 I'd already told her father who it was.
4 Everybody says that, especially my father.
5 She kept asking me if my father had a date or not.
6 As a matter of fact, my father was a Catholic once.
7 "Ernest's father and I sometimes worry about him," she said.
8 They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
9 She kept asking me to call up my father and ask him what he was doing tonight.
10 Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom.
11 Her father was one of those big silent bastards, and he wasn't too crazy about me anyhow.
12 The father had on one of those pearl-gray hats that poor guys wear a lot when they want to look sharp.
13 What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was.
14 Which scared me a little bit, because I was a little afraid she'd go home and tell her father I called her a pain in the ass.
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.
16 While the father kept giving him a lot of advice, old Ophelia was sort of horsing around with her brother, taking his dagger out of the holster, and teasing him and all while he was trying to look interested in the bull his father was shooting.
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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