PHONIES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 Then I watched the phonies for a while.
2 She probably knew what a phony slob he was.
3 I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman.
4 "Even the couple of nice teachers on the faculty, they were phonies, too," I said.
5 One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies.
6 It was partly a phony kind of friendly, but at least he always said hello to Ackley and all.
7 I stopped on the way, though, and picked up Ackley's hand, and gave him a big, phony handshake.
8 I just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.
9 It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
10 If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
11 You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.
12 Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy.
13 One of those stories with a lot of phony, lean-jawed guys named David in it, and a lot of phony girls named Linda or Marcia that are always lighting all the goddam Davids' pipes for them.
14 I didn't much want to see it, but I knew old Sally, the queen of the phonies, would start drooling all over the place when I told her I had tickets for that, because the Lunts were in it and all.
15 I even thought for a minute that he was going to get in the goddam cab with us when the show was over, because he walked about two blocks with us, but he had to meet a bunch of phonies for cocktails, he said.
16 It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.
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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