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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I was afraid my parents might hear me sneaking in.
2 Except if some boy had little old funny-looking parents.
3 You should've seen the way he did with my roommate's parents.
4 But my parents, especially my mother, she has ears like a goddam bloodhound.
5 I thought of maybe hanging up if my parents answered, but that wouldn't've worked, either.
6 In the first place, my parents are different religions, and all the children in our family are atheists.
7 When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave.
8 On Sundays, for instance, old Haas went around shaking hands with everybody's parents when they drove up to school.
9 But I was too afraid my parents would answer, and then they'd find out I was in New York and kicked out of Pencey and all.
10 I figured my parents probably wouldn't get old Thurmer's letter saying I'd been given the ax till maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.
11 It starts out when they're young and all, and the girl's parents don't want her to marry the boy, but she marries him anyway.
12 My brother Allie and I, if we were with our parents and all, we used to move our seats and go way down so we could watch him.
13 You could tell he was very ashamed of his parents and all, because they said "he don't" and "she don't" and stuff like that and they weren't very wealthy.
14 In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
15 Some new guy I'd never seen was on the car, so I figured that if I didn't bump smack into my parents and all I'd be able to say hello to old Phoebe and then beat it and nobody'd even know I'd been around.
16 IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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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