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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 You've probably seen the ads, anyway.
2 If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
3 I was the goddam manager of the fencing team.
4 I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place.
5 There were never many girls at all at the football games.
6 Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep.
7 Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time.
8 Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon Hall.
9 I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation.
10 It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
11 You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place.
12 The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing team.
13 In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
14 She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her.
15 I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all.
16 You couldn't see the grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever brought many people with them.
17 IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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