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1 What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a goodbye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad goodbye or a bad goodbye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.
2 I’d never yell “Good luck!” at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
3 Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen.
4 What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
5 People always clap for the wrong things.
6 If any actor’s really good, you can always tell he know he’s good, and that spoils it.
7 There wouldn’t be marvelous places to go after I went to college and all.
（如果没有读过这本书，肯定很难理解这句话的逻辑。）
8 You don’t have to be a bad guy to depress somebody－you can be a good guy and do it.
9 You don’t like anything that’s happening.
10 Don’t you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can’t I?
11 How would know you weren’t being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn’t.
12 I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around－nobody big, I mean－except me. 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’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.
13 What I think is, you’re supposed to leave somebody alone if he’s at least being interesting and he’s getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something.
14 Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I’d never get to the other side of the street. I thought I’d just go down, down, down, and nobody’d ever see me again.
15 I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old phoebe kept going 
16 Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.