![]() ![]() And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. Quote 18: "'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Quote 17: "'It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques'" Chapter 17, pg. ![]() I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway." Chapter 16, pg. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. Quote 16: "Certain things they should stay the way they are. Quote 15: "'If a body catch a body coming through the rye.'" Chapter 16, pg. If she'd been a big old prostitute, with a lot of makeup on her face and all, she wouldn't have been half as spooky." Chapter 13, pg. Even with that little bitty voice she had, she could sort of scare you a little bit. I've had quite a few opportunities to lose my virginity and all, but I've never got around to it yet." Chapter 13, pg. Quote 12: "If you want to know the truth, I'm a virgin. ![]() It's a funny kind of yellowness, when you come to think of it, but it's yellowness, all right. It wouldn't be so bad if you could both be blindfolded or something. I can't stand looking at the other guy's face, is my trouble. I don't mind getting hit so much - although I'm not crazy about it, naturally - but what scares me most in a fist fight is the guy's face. I think it's because sometimes when he plays, he sounds like the kind of guy that won't talk to you unless you're a big shot." Chapter 11, pg. I certainly like to hear him play, but sometimes you feel like turning his goddam piano over. I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. Quote 10: "He's so good he's almost corny, in fact. It stinks, if you analyze it." Chapter 9, pg. The thing is, though, I don't like the idea. I can even see how it might be quite a lot of fun, in a crumby way, and if you were both sort of drunk and all, to get a girl and squirt water or something all over each other's face. Quote 9: "Sometimes I can think of very crumby stuff I wouldn't mind doing if the opportunity came up. Quote 8: "'You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?'" Chapter 9, pg. Once I get started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it. Quote 7: "Then I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. I put my red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, ' Sleep tight, ya morons!'" Chapter 7, pg. Quote 6: "When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor. I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth." Chapter 6, pp. I'd only been in about two fights in my life, and I lost both of them. All that blood and all sort of made me look tough. Quote 5: "You never saw such gore in your life.It partly scared me and it partly fascinated me. Quote 4: "I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot." Chapter 3, pg. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?'" Chapter 2, pg. Quote 3: "'I'm just going through a phase right now. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. Quote 1: "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." Chapter 1, pg.
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