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  1. J.D. Salinger _ The Complete Uncollected

    I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.
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  2. J.D. Salinger _ The Complete Uncollected

    No, there wouldn't be," Holden said. "It'd be entirely different." Sally looked at him; he had contradicted her so quietly. "It wouldn't be the same at all. We'd have to go downstairs in elevators with suitcases and stuff. We'd have to call up everyone and tell 'em goodbye and send 'em postcards. And I'd have to work at my father's and ride in Madison Avenue buses and read newspapers. We'd have to go to the Seventy-second Street all the time and see newsreels. Newsreels! There's always a dumb horse race and some dame breaking a bottle over a ship. You don't see what I mean at all." "Maybe I don't. Maybe you don't, either," Sally said. Holden stood up, with his skates swung over one shoulder. "You give me a royal pain," he announced quite dispassionately.
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  3. J.D. Salinger _ The Complete Uncollected

    If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm."
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  4. J.D. Salinger _ The Complete Uncollected

    He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
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