ENGLISH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 Oh, I passed English all right.
2 All I said was English was my best subject.
3 One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
4 He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that's in this new picture he's writing.
5 That sonuvabitch Hartzell thinks you're a hot-shot in English, and he knows you're my roommate.
6 It is all right with me if you flunk me though as I am flunking everything else except English anyway.
7 It was about this English guy, Alec something, that was in the war and loses his memory in the hospital and all.
8 The one next to me, with the iron glasses, said she taught English and her friend taught history and American government.
9 I passed English all right," I said, "because I had all that Beowulf and Lord Randal My Son stuff when I was at the Whooton School.
10 I got up from the bed then, because what I wanted to do, I wanted to phone up this guy that was my English teacher at Elkton Hills, Mr. Antolini.
11 Then I started wondering like a bastard what the one sitting next to me, that taught English, thought about, being a nun and all, when she read certain books for English.
12 Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy.