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is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

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Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.

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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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This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

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Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls,...more

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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardl...more

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You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog d...more

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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

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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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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself t...more

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People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.

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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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When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don´t go. I´m t...more

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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.