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"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful."
"In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."
“What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.”
"And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all."
“You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away."
"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody."
"People never notice anything."
"I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."
“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."