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'I forgave her for the dirty dishes and the New Yorker and her
writers' workshop. The old gal was only another lonely creature
in a world that didn't care.'

'"Oh Jesus Christ," I said, "Oh Jesus Christ!" I don't know how Jesus Christ always got into such things.'

"We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed."

"I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman."

"None of them are."

'And he'd just sit there and smile at me. Laugh at me, while the flies ate him up. Maybe he knew more than any of us.'

Again, again

Soon the tomb would be complete and the door would be opened when it was needed and someone would go inside to stay there for the ages

and how they stopped eating my parents, though it did not help my parents any, nothing could help them by then, and we talked for a long time and one of the tigers helped me with my arithmetic, then they told me to go away while they finished eating my parents

'I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.'

'It wouldn't be the same at all. You don't see what I mean at all.' Holden w/ the Prufrock

'So I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they’re secretly all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me."

'The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed the same.'

'You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.'

'I was probably the only normal bastard in the whole place - and that isn't saying much.'

'Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.'

'All of a sudden — for no good reason, really, except that I was sort of in the mood for horsing around — I felt like jumping off the washbowl and getting old Stradlater in a half nelson. That’s a wrestling hold, in case you don’t know, where you get the other guy around the neck and choke him to death, if you feel like it. So I did it.'

'“Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.” I thought about it for a minute. “But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess.”"

To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral.