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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 He sat up more in his chair and sort of moved around.
2 They were both around seventy years old, or even more than that.
3 So we got back to Pencey around two-thirty instead of around dinnertime.
4 The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to be a very big deal around Pencey.
5 One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
6 What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by.
7 He hated Stradlater's guts and he never came in the room if Stradlater was around.
8 It was just before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway.
9 On Sundays, for instance, old Haas went around shaking hands with everybody's parents when they drove up to school.
10 I could feel him standing on the shower ledge, right behind my chair, taking a look to see if Stradlater was around.
11 As soon as I got it, I turned around and started running down the other side of the hill, toward old Spencer's house.
12 He started walking around the room, very slow and all, the way he always did, picking up your personal stuff off your desk and chiffonier.
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 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.
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 But I just couldn't hang around there any longer, the way we were on opposite sides of the pole, and the way he kept missing the bed whenever he chucked something at it, and his sad old bathrobe with his chest showing, and that grippy smell of Vicks Nose Drops all over the place.
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