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- Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a…
- They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and…
- But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely…
- 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…
- Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm…
- It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a…
- They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that…
- I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep…
- But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
- Did you see more glass?
- Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses.…
- The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
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