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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 He started chuckling like a madman.
2 And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve.
3 He started handling my exam paper like it was a turd or something.
4 They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
5 After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing.
6 I don't much like to see old guys in their pajamas and bathrobes anyway.
7 I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen.
8 He made out like he was only pinching it, but he was really getting the old thumb right in there.
9 You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.
10 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.
11 Then all of a sudden old Spencer looked like he had something very good, something sharp as a tack, to say to me.
12 He was reading the Atlantic Monthly, and there were pills and medicine all over the place, and everything smelled like Vicks Nose Drops.
13 It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
14 I didn't mind the idea so much, but I didn't feel like being lectured to and smell Vicks Nose Drops and look at old Spencer in his pajamas and bathrobe all at the same time.
15 I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
16 Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries.
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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