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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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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'...

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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. T...

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He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to ...

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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 ...

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When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Alli...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

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

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

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

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look ...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on ...

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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 l...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the w...

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