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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I had a pretty good half nelson on him.
2 I sat there for about a half hour after he left.
3 He did the same lousy old half gainer all day long.
4 I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.
5 Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year.
6 He spent around half his goddam life in front of the mirror.
7 He said half the married guys in the world were flits and didn't even know it.
8 It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.
9 And the funny part is she knows, half the time, what the hell you're talking about.
10 Anyway, it took me about a half hour to find out where they all worked and all in Seattle.
11 The only way I could even half enjoy myself dragging her around was if I amused myself a little.
12 If she'd been a big old prostitute, with a lot of makeup on her face and all, she wouldn't have been half as spooky.
13 But I roomed with him for about two whole months, even though he bored me till I was half crazy, just because he was such a terrific whistler, the best I ever heard.
14 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.
15 Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
16 You take a really smart girl, and half the time she's trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she's such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her.
17 I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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