WATER in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 The blonde one, old Bernice, was drinking bourbon and water.
2 It probably was highballs, not water, but I couldn't see what they had in their glasses.
3 I went to my room and put some water on my hair, but you can't really comb a crew cut or anything.
4 For instance, that girl that was getting water squirted all over her face, she was pretty good-looking.
5 Anyway, I was sitting on the washbowl next to where Stradlater was shaving, sort of turning the water on and off.
6 There were even more upstairs, with deer inside them drinking at water holes, and birds flying south for the winter.
7 Then, in the window almost right over his, I saw a man and a woman squirting water out of their mouths at each other.
8 About a gallon of water was dripping down my neck, getting all over my collar and tie and all, but I didn't give a damn.
9 I thought maybe if there were any around, they might be asleep or something near the edge of the water, near the grass and all.
10 Finally, though, I came out and went in the men's room, staggering around like a moron, and filled one of the washbowls with cold water.
11 I can even see how it might be quite a lot of fun, in a crumby way, and if you were both sort of drunk and all, to get a girl and squirt water or something all over each other's face.
12 I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it.
13 You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket.