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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 Finally old Mrs. Spencer opened.
2 Their bumpy old chests are always showing.
3 "Have a seat there, boy," old Spencer said.
4 You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of buying it.
5 They were both around seventy years old, or even more than that.
6 Boy, I rang that doorbell fast when I got to old Spencer's house.
7 You never saw anybody nod as much in your life as old Spencer did.
8 I don't much like to see old guys in their pajamas and bathrobes anyway.
9 "M'boy, if I felt any better I'd have to send for the doctor," old Spencer said.
10 You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.
11 It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
12 As soon as I got it, I turned around and started running down the other side of the hill, toward old Spencer's house.
13 The other reason I wasn't down at the game was because I was on my way to say good-by to old Spencer, my history teacher.
14 What made it even more depressing, old Spencer had on this very sad, ratty old bathrobe that he was probably born in or something.
15 You never knew if he was nodding a lot because he was thinking and all, or just because he was a nice old guy that didn't know his ass from his elbow.
16 I just mean that I used to think about old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too much, you wondered what the heck he was still living for.
17 For instance, one Sunday when some other guys and I were over there for hot chocolate, he showed us this old beat-up Navajo blanket that he and Mrs. Spencer'd bought off some Indian in Yellowstone Park.
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