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beadaa7
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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 - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
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hope
run
holden-caulfield
save
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J. D. Salinger |
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a90b961
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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.
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stasis
holden-caulfield
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J.D. Salinger |
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a307bc8
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I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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holden-caulfield
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J.D. Salinger |
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27d54f2
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Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
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death
j-d-salinger
holden-caulfield
flowers
wry-humor
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J.D. Salinger |
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315ebe1
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"Lawyers are alright, I guess -- but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't."
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holden-caulfield
the-catcher-in-the-rye
phonies
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J.D. Salinger |
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e11adb3
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I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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j-d-salinger
holden-caulfield
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J.D. Salinger |
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4776d0c
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That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't
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holden-caulfield
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J.D. Salinger |
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340d3a1
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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, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them... You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring.
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humor
holden-caulfield
guys
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J.D. Salinger |
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e7badbf
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D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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ending-lines
holden-caulfield
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J.D. Salinger |
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528c122
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"We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.
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holden-caulfield
the-catcher-in-the-rye
imagery
language
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John Green |
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ef9601e
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He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.
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sarah-mlynowski
mgg
holden-caulfield
phony
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Sarah Mlynowski |