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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I forgot to tell you about that.
2 "I must tell Ernest we met," she said.
3 I'll tell you what kind of red hair he had.
4 That's the way you can always tell a moron.
5 She wasn't just being nosy, you could tell.
6 I wasn't too crazy about him, to tell you the truth.
7 You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of buying it.
8 You could tell she was running the name over in her mind and all.
9 I was going to tell whoever answered the phone that I was her uncle.
10 Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything.
11 I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age.
12 I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you're talking about.
13 Her mother knew my mother, and I could picture her breaking a goddam leg to get to the phone and tell my mother I was in New York.
14 Finally, the blonde one got up to dance with me, because you could tell I was really talking to her, and we walked out to the dance floor.
15 I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
16 Anyway, finally I had to come right out and tell him that I had to write a composition for Stradlater, and that he had to clear the hell out, so I could concentrate.
17 Hardly anybody laughed out loud, and old Ossenburger made out like he didn't even hear it, but old Thurmer, the headmaster, was sitting right next to him on the rostrum and all, and you could tell he heard it.
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