MEAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I mean he was the unanimous choice.
2 I mean not wait till Wednesday or anything.
3 I mean he didn't hit the ceiling or anything.
4 He didn't mean to insult you, for cryin out loud.
5 I mean I just sat in my chair, not doing anything.
6 I know that sounds mean to say, but I don't mean it mean.
7 I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them.
8 He didn't say it right or anything, but he didn't mean anything insulting.
9 I mean I'm not going to be a goddam surgeon or a violinist or anything anyway.
10 I mean if somebody yawns right while they're asking you to do them a goddam favor.
11 I mean it isn't too nice, naturally, if somebody tells you you don't brush your teeth.
12 I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas.
13 I mean I could shoot the old bull to old Spencer and think about those ducks at the same time.
14 I mean I can't remember exactly what I was doing when I heard his goddam stupid footsteps coming down the corridor.
15 I just mean that I used to think about old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too much, you wondered what the heck he was still living for.
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 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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