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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 "You ride once, too, this time," she said.
2 When the ride was over she got off her horse and came over to me.
3 I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall.
4 Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators.
5 But finally, after I was riding a while, the cab driver and I sort of struck up a conversation.
6 There's always a dumb horse race, and some dame breaking a bottle over a ship, and some chimpanzee riding a goddam bicycle with pants on.
7 There were a few kids riding on it, mostly very little kids, and a few parents were waiting around outside, sitting on the benches and all.
8 Usually I like riding on trains, especially at night, with the lights on and the windows so black, and one of those guys coming up the aisle selling coffee and sandwiches and magazines.
9 I've lived in New York all my life, and I know Central Park like the back of my hand, because I used to roller-skate there all the time and ride my bike when I was a kid, but I had the most terrific trouble finding that lagoon that night.
10 What I'd do, I figured, I'd go down to the Holland Tunnel and bum a ride, and then I'd bum another one, and another one, and another one, and in a few days I'd be somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job.
11 And I'd be working in some office, making a lot of dough, and riding to work in cabs and Madison Avenue buses, and reading newspapers, and playing bridge all the time, and going to the movies and seeing a lot of stupid shorts and coming attractions and newsreels.