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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
2 It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it.
3 I know that sounds mean to say, but I don't mean it mean.
4 You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of buying it.
5 Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall.
6 I wear a crew cut quite frequently and I never have to comb it much.
7 His door was open, but I sort of knocked on it anyway, just to be polite and all.
8 Quite a few guys came from these very wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway.
9 Anyway, it was December and all, and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill.
10 It was just before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway.
11 I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it.
12 As soon as I got it, I turned around and started running down the other side of the hill, toward old Spencer's house.
13 It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money.
14 But if you thought about him just enough and not too much, you could figure it out that he wasn't doing too bad for himself.
15 I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
16 I mean he was all stooped over, and he had very terrible posture, and in class, whenever he dropped a piece of chalk at the blackboard, some guy in the first row always had to get up and pick it up and hand it to him.
17 IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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