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 Current Search - understands in The Catcher in the Rye
1  I don't understand boring guys.
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2  That's what I can't understand.
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3  Sex is something I just don't understand.
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4  Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.
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5  The thing I couldn't understand, she had this big suitcase with her.
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6  You could hardly understand her with that goddam pillow over her head.
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7  All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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8  I can understand somebody going to the movies because there's nothing else to do, but when somebody really wants to go, and even walks fast so as to get there quicker, then it depresses hell out of me.
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