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Quotes from The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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1 I'd just stand there, trying to look tough.
2 I didn't feel too much like trying, either.
3 She was trying to get rid of her, you could tell.
4 He kept trying to join, and they wouldn't let him.
5 You could tell she was just trying to get in good with me.
6 Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic.
7 She was trying to give me the dough, but she couldn't find my hand.
8 You could see there wasn't any sense trying to have an intelligent conversation.
9 What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by.
10 I stuck around for a while, apologizing and trying to get her to excuse me, but she wouldn't.
11 But Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic even if they don't know your last name.
12 While I was laying there trying not to think, I heard old Stradlater come back from the can and go in our room.
13 I kept laying there in the dark anyway, though, trying not to think about old Jane and Stradlater in that goddam Ed Banky's car.
14 Girls aren't too much help, either, when you start trying not to get too crumby, when you start trying not to spoil anything really good.
15 I kept trying to picture my mother or somebody, or my aunt, or Sally Hayes's crazy mother, standing outside some department store and collecting dough for poor people in a beat-up old straw basket.
16 You take a really smart girl, and half the time she's trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she's such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her.
17 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.
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