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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies.
2 I was the goddam manager of the fencing team.
3 I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place.
4 He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe.
5 Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep.
6 I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway.
7 I had to keep getting up to look at this map, so we'd know where to get off.
8 Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything.
9 And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all.
10 I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation.
11 What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was.
12 The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing team.
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 In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
15 I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all.
16 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.
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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