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Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

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It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.

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It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

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I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

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J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger

Born: January 1, 1919
Died: January 27, 2010 (aged 91)
Bio: Jerome David Salinger was an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.
Known for:
  1. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  2. Franny and Zooey (1961)
  3. Nine Stories (1953)
  4. For Esmé—with Love and Squalor (1950)
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