People always clap for the wrong reasons.
("The Catcher in the Rye")
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Did you know, God damn it, that Les was all for bringing a tangerine in to you last night before he went to bed? My God. Even Bessie can't stand stories with tangerines in them. And God knows I can't. If you're going to go on with this breakdown business, I wish to hell you'd go back to college to have it. Where you're not the baby of the family. And where, God knows, nobody'll have any urges to bring you any tangerines. And where you don't keep your goddam tap shoes in the closet.
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It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a male , I suppose, or some goddam thing. All I can say is, don't see it if you don't want to puke all over yourself.
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Almost every damn school in the world gets out earlier for Christmas break than the school I go to.
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I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.
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Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
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