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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I forgot to tell you about that.
2 If you don't, you feel even worse.
3 I have no wind, if you want to know the truth.
4 It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it.
5 Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time.
6 Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything.
7 He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him.
8 What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was.
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 You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place.
11 I just mean that I used to think about old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too much, you wondered what the heck he was still living for.
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'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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 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.
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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