67 Quotes About Holden

  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    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.

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