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Wow, there exists someone who doesn’t like The Catcher in the Rye! And (partly) because the writing is bad!? I admit the dialog sounds a little … gulfstream/1589

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A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going to apply myself when I go back to school next September. … catcher/28

`Lawyers are all right, I guess---but it doesn't appeal to me ... Even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did … catcher/27

He [Holden's brother D.B.] made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson. Allie … catcher/26

Then, after the Rockettes, a guy came out in a tuxedo and roller-skates on, and started skating under a bunch of little tables, and telling jokes while … catcher/25

`You ought to go to a boys' school sometime. Try it sometime,' I said. `It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to … catcher/24

All that crap they have in cartoons in the _Saturday Evening Post_ and all, showing guys on street corners looking sore as hell because their dates are … catcher/23

So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of … catcher/22

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 times, … catcher/21

She thanked me and all when I had it [a little girl's skate] tightened for her. She was a very nice, polite little kid. God, I love it when a kid's … catcher/20

And if any actor's really good, you can always tell he _knows_ he's good, and that spoils it. -- J.D. Salinger, _The Catcher in the Rye_, p. 123 catcher/19

Then, after a while, right in the middle of the goddam conversation, he [Louis Gorman] asked me, `Did you happen to notice where the Catholic church is … catcher/18

The thing is, it's really hard to be room-mates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs --- if yours are really good ones and theirs … catcher/17

It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just … catcher/16

If someone knows quite a lot about those things [the theatre and plays and literature and all that stuff], it takes you quite a while to find out whether … catcher/15

I remember I asked old Childs if he thought Judas, the one that betrayed Jesus and all, went to Hell after he committed suicide. Childs said certainly. … catcher/14

He [Arthur Childs] kept telling me if I didn't like the Disciples, then I didn't like Jesus and all. He said that because Jesus _picked_ the Disciples, … catcher/13

I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that … catcher/12

I'm a sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. … catcher/11

The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl --- a girl that isn't a prostitute or anything, I mean --- she … catcher/10

One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something --- it used to drive my mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend _days_ looking … catcher/9

... she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand _dies_ on you, or else they think they have to keep … catcher/8

I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing. The girls I like best are the … catcher/7

You'd have liked him [Holden's brother Allie]. -- J.D. Salinger, _The Catcher in the Rye_, p. 41 You'd like her [Holden's sister Phoebe]. -- J.D. … catcher/6

`You used to play _what_ with her all the time?' `Checkers.' `_Checkers_, for Chrissake!' `Yeah. She [Jane Gallagher] wouldn't move any of her kings. … catcher/5

I mean he [Stradlater] was mostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy. I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but … catcher/4

He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name of it. `Any good?' he said. `This sentence I'm reading is terrific.' -- J.D. Salinger, … catcher/3

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could … catcher/2

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. -- J.D. Salinger, _The Catcher in the Rye_, p. 22 catcher/1