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I felt so damn happy all of sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.
— J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Tags: wish, why, truth, protection, phoebe, niceness, knowing, happiness, feeling, carousel

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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink my coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt my door.
— J.D. Salinger
Tags: loves books, introvert, bibliophile
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
— J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Tags: young-adult, school, education
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
— J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey
Tags: education, college
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
— J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Tags: teachers, education, authority
God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!
— J.D. Salinger Hapworth 16
Tags: woman, love, books
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