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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 He said he didn't much want to buy it.
2 I usually buy a ham sandwich and about four magazines.
3 You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of buying it.
4 We could buy them a lot of books and teach them how to read and write by ourselves.
5 She's no good at buying ice skates or anything like that, but clothes, she's perfect.
6 You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.
7 I figured I'd buy it in some store that was open on Sunday and then I'd take it up to the park with me.
8 I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all.
9 All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot.
10 There isn't any night club in the world you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk.
11 If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.
12 A boy that lived on the next floor had it, and I tried to buy it off him because I knew it would knock old Phoebe out, but he wouldn't sell it.
13 In the first place, it was one of those places that are very terrible to be in unless you have somebody good to dance with, or unless the waiter lets you buy real drinks instead of just Cokes.
14 They were always showing Columbus discovering America, having one helluva time getting old Ferdinand and Isabella to lend him the dough to buy ships with, and then the sailors mutinying on him and all.
15 It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.