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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 So I shot the bull for a while.
2 I'm glad I shot it for a while, though.
3 Six shots right through his fat hairy belly.
4 If you were a big shot or a celebrity or something, then he was even more nauseating.
5 The funny thing is, though, I was sort of thinking of something else while I shot the bull.
6 He didn't talk to you at all hardly unless you were a big shot or a celebrity or something.
7 He always wanted everybody to go back to their own room and shut up when he was finished being the big shot.
8 I think it's because sometimes when he plays, he sounds like the kind of guy that won't talk to you unless you're a big shot.
9 Now I was on the way to the bathroom to get a good shot of bourbon or something to steady my nerves and help me really go into action.
10 He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano.
11 But I'll bet, after all the crap I shot, Mrs. Morrow'll keep thinking of him now as this very shy, modest guy that wouldn't let us nominate him for president.
12 Then the old lady that was around a hundred years old and I shot the breeze for a while, She was pretty nice, and I told her how I'd gone there to school, too, and my brothers.
13 He's a very bitter guy, the brother, because he was a doctor in the war and now he can't operate any more because his nerves are shot, so he boozes all the time, but he's pretty witty and all.