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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 "This is a people shooting hat," I said.
2 And they weren't just shooting the crap.
3 Then I started shooting the old crap around a little bit.
4 All of a sudden, though, he interrupted me while I was shooting the bull.
5 "Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said.
6 I kept wishing I could go home and shoot the bull for a while with old Phoebe.
7 But I certainly wouldn't have minded shooting the crap with old Phoebe for a while.
8 I mean I could shoot the old bull to old Spencer and think about those ducks at the same time.
9 He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in.
10 Right that minute, the conductor came around for old Mrs. Morrow's ticket, and it gave me a chance to quit shooting it.
11 It wouldn't be too bad if they'd just take you out and shoot you or something, but you have to stay in the Army so goddam long.
12 Later, when he went overseas and was in the war and all, he didn't get wounded or anything and he didn't have to shoot anybody.
13 While the father kept giving him a lot of advice, old Ophelia was sort of horsing around with her brother, taking his dagger out of the holster, and teasing him and all while he was trying to look interested in the bull his father was shooting.