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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1  He leaned over and handed it to me.
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2  He kept telling her she had aristocratic hands.
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3  I held hands with her all the time, for instance.
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4  I took out a five-dollar bill and handed it to her.
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5  She didn't have any gloves on or anything and her hands were all red and cold.
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6  That doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with.
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7  I wished I knew who'd swiped my gloves at Pencey, because my hands were freezing.
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8  While he was doing it, I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands.
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9  I didn't put my hands on her shoulders again or anything because if I had she really would've beat it on me.
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10  On Sundays, for instance, old Haas went around shaking hands with everybody's parents when they drove up to school.
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11  We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over.
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12  He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you.
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13  Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.
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14  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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