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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 School stairs always smell like that.
2 We started going down the stairs to where the taxis are.
3 The stairs had the same smell they used to have when I went there.
4 I went out the doors and started down these stone stairs to meet her.
5 Finally, old Sally started coming up the stairs, and I started down to meet her.
6 While I was walking up the stairs, though, all of a sudden I thought I was going to puke again.
7 Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck.
8 I went over to the stairs and sat down on the first step and took out the pad and pencil I'd bought.
9 "This boy, Curtis Weintraub, that's in my class, pushed me while I was going down the stairs in the park," she said.
10 When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor.
11 Then I started walking up the stairs to the principal's office so I could give the note to somebody that would bring it to her in her classroom.
12 There was this empty box of Kolynos toothpaste outside Leahy and Hoffman's door, and while I walked down towards the stairs, I kept giving it a boot with this sheep-lined slipper I had on.
13 Then I heard everybody running through the corridor and down the stairs, so I put on my bathrobe and I ran downstairs too, and there was old James Castle laying right on the stone steps and all.
14 He was all out of breath from just climbing up the stairs, and the whole time he was looking for his initials he kept breathing hard, with his nostrils all funny and sad, while he kept telling Stradlater and I to get all we could out of Pencey.