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Can someone give me 11 Holdenisms from the book the Catcher in the Rye?

They are not just a one word thing that the main character says. A Holdenism is a saying that he says. It is usually like 1-3 lines or so.
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Posted Nov 7th, 2009 at 6:37PM
that book was not that great imo... like a boring week of my life... sorry can't help.
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Posted Nov 7th, 2009 at 6:44PM
1. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

2. People always think something's all true.

3. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

4. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

5. In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

6. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

7. 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.

8. Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are.

9. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ***. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

10. It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

FINALLY, and this may not be a Holdenism as you define it but it is the book's dialogue that gives us the wonderful title ...

11. Anyway, 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 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.
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Posted Nov 7th, 2009 at 6:49PM
Great stuff lucy.

Next time try paying attention to the book.
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Posted Nov 7th, 2009 at 9:26PM
Great job Lucy. I love number 10.
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