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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 They were coming in the goddam window.
2 They were nice guys, especially Tichener.
3 Only seniors were allowed to bring girls with them.
4 There were never many girls at all at the football games.
5 My ears were hurting and I could hardly move my fingers at all.
6 They were both around seventy years old, or even more than that.
7 But it was just that we were too much on opposite sides of the pole, that's all.
8 The Egyptians were an ancient race of Caucasians residing in one of the northern sections of Africa.
9 It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
10 It kept getting darker and darker, and we could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing.
11 He was reading the Atlantic Monthly, and there were pills and medicine all over the place, and everything smelled like Vicks Nose Drops.
12 It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
13 I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building.
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 Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries.
16 For instance, one Sunday when some other guys and I were over there for hot chocolate, he showed us this old beat-up Navajo blanket that he and Mrs. Spencer'd bought off some Indian in Yellowstone Park.
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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