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You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

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Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

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I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, ...more

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As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when ...more

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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

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The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand time...more

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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nob...more

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When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything e...more

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I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

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When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a couple of times, but...more

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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

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That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in...more

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But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought h...more

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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, an...more