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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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de89096
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That's what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
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j-d-salinger
salinger
holden
the-catcher-in-the-rye
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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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b2b7802
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"I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in." Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though... "What the hellya reading?" "Goddamn book."
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j-d-salinger
the-catcher-in-the-rye
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J. D. Salinger |
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93f5811
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I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
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the-catcher-in-the-rye
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J.D. Salinger |
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4f410ca
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The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kils me. I'm always saing 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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holden
the-catcher-in-the-rye
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J.D. Salinger |