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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 It made me sound dead or something.
2 It keeps me from getting bored or something.
3 He'd even pick up your jock strap or something.
4 I oughta go down and say hello to her or something.
5 He started handling my exam paper like it was a turd or something.
6 I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something.
7 Suppose, for instance, Stradlater was wearing a tie or something that you liked.
8 You were always watching somebody cut their damn toenails or squeeze their pimples or something.
9 It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
10 He put my goddam paper down then and looked at me like he'd just beaten hell out of me in ping-pong or something.
11 What made it even more depressing, old Spencer had on this very sad, ratty old bathrobe that he was probably born in or something.
12 The reason I asked was because Ackley never did anything on Saturday night, except stay in his room and squeeze his pimples or something.
13 Then he started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down his knees and pray to God.
14 They always looked mossy and awful, and he damn near made you sick if you saw him in the dining room with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and peas or something.
15 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.
16 All I know is I got up from the bed, like I was going down to the can or something, and then I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open.
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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