THEY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 And they probably came to Pencey that way.
2 they'll be pretty irritated about it, I said.
3 You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something.
4 They'd look like they had big noses or their ears stuck out.
5 Anyway, he gave Pencey a pile of dough, and they named our wing after him.
6 They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school.
7 They didn't have a maid or anything, and they always opened the door themselves.
8 You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.
9 For instance, they had this headmaster, Mr. Haas, that was the phoniest bastard I ever met in my life.
10 The arms were in sad shape, because everybody was always sitting on them, but they were pretty comfortable chairs.
11 On Sundays, for instance, old Haas went around shaking hands with everybody's parents when they drove up to school.
12 Then he said, "I had the privilege of meeting your mother and dad when they had their little chat with Dr. Thurmer some weeks ago."
13 I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their pictures in the Year Book.
14 I read a lot of classical books, like The Return of the Native and all, and I like them, and I read a lot of war books and mysteries and all, but they don't knock me out too much.
15 I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
16 Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries.
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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