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Holden

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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

J. D. Salinger

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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

J. D. Salinger

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If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

J. D. Salinger

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

J. D. Salinger

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I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

J. D. Salinger

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

J. D. Salinger

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

J. D. Salinger

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