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

'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.”"