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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I forgot to tell you about that.
2 And they probably came to Pencey that way.
3 Pencey Prep is this school that's in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.
4 They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
5 And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all.
6 One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
7 We'd gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with McBurney School.
8 All of a sudden I thought of something that helped make me know I was getting the hell out.
9 Anyway, I kept standing next to that crazy cannon, looking down at the game and freezing my ass off.
10 Anyway, it was December and all, and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill.
11 It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money.
12 The week before that, somebody'd stolen my camel's-hair coat right out of my room, with my fur-lined gloves right in the pocket and all.
13 I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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 She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her.
16 I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all.
17 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.
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