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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 Well, they're dancers, she's a dancer.
2 Take most people, they're crazy about cars.
3 They're not as bad as movies, but they're certainly nothing to rave about.
4 Those damn drivers never even look where they're going, I swear they don't.
5 I mean if somebody yawns right while they're asking you to do them a goddam favor.
6 They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.
7 It starts out when they're young and all, and the girl's parents don't want her to marry the boy, but she marries him anyway.
8 You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor.
9 If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.
10 Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor.
11 Sometimes I can't even look at them, especially if they're with some dopey guy that's telling them all about a goddam football game.
12 He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you.
13 You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do.
14 I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
15 Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
16 You never know whether they really want you to stop, or whether they're just scared as hell, or whether they're just telling you to stop so that if you do go through with it, the blame'll be on you, not them.
17 They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer.
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