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“You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.”

Funny Crazy Dying Think Handsome Favor Them You Re Themself

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell- I don't know why exactly.”

Funny Girl Knowing Sad Know Salesman Nobody Prostitute Store Regular

Author:J.D. Salinger

“All I can say is, don't see it if you don't want to puke all over yourself.”

Humor Funny Humour

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.”

Funny Happiness Happy Paranoia

Book:Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

Source: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

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