“It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“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 call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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