67 Quotes About Holden

  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.

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