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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 It takes things a while to hit me.
2 It only takes her about two seconds to get wide-awake.
3 I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it.
4 Old Stradlater started taking off his coat and tie and all.
5 Stradlater kept taking these shadow punches down at my shoulder.
6 I stayed in the bathroom for about an hour, taking a bath and all.
7 Finally, though, I'd leave his room without even taking a sock at him.
8 I thought if you were taking up a collection," I told her, "I could make a small contribution.
9 Then when he was taking off his tie, he asked me if I'd written his goddam composition for him.
10 He kept laughing the whole time I was taking down my suitcase and getting the scissors out for him.
11 He came over to my bed and started leaning over me and taking these playful as hell socks at my shoulder.
12 I could feel him standing on the shower ledge, right behind my chair, taking a look to see if Stradlater was around.
13 If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.
14 He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.
15 AFTER I HAD my breakfast, it was only around noon, and I wasn't meeting old Sally till two o'clock, so I started taking this long walk.
16 Then he started walking up and down the room, taking these very small steps, the way a woman does, and smoking a cigarette and looking at himself in the mirror.
17 While the father kept giving him a lot of advice, old Ophelia was sort of horsing around with her brother, taking his dagger out of the holster, and teasing him and all while he was trying to look interested in the bull his father was shooting.
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