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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 Then, finally, somebody picked up the phone.
2 So I went in a phone booth and called her up.
3 I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone.
4 Anyway, I went over to the phone and gave her a buzz.
5 I'm not crazy about talking to girls' mothers on the phone anyway.
6 I was going to tell whoever answered the phone that I was her uncle.
7 Besides, I wasn't crazy about talking to old Mrs. Hayes on the phone.
8 Anyway, she was somebody you always felt like talking to on the phone.
9 The only trouble was, her mother answered the phone, so I had to hang up.
10 THE FIRST THING I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth.
11 Anyway, I gave old Jane a buzz again, but her phone didn't answer, so I had to hang up.
12 She wouldn't've cared if I'd woke her up, but the trouble was, she wouldn't've been the one that answered the phone.
13 Her mother knew my mother, and I could picture her breaking a goddam leg to get to the phone and tell my mother I was in New York.
14 But I couldn't take a chance on giving her a buzz, because she was only a little kid and she wouldn't have been up, let alone anywhere near the phone.
15 WHEN I LEFT the skating rink I felt sort of hungry, so I went in this drugstore and had a Swiss cheese sandwich and a malted, and then I went in a phone booth.
16 The phone was right next to me, and I started to call down and have them send up some breakfast, but I was sort of afraid they might send it up with old Maurice.
17 What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
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