My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. I told him I wasn't going to chuck it at anybody, but he wouldn't believe me. You have to be in the mood for those things. “I’m not in the mood right now,” I said. 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 call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they? I'm just going through a phase right now. 
Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age.People always think something's all true. It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. Everybody says that, especially my father. And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve.
#Who wrote the catcher in the rye full
The one side of my head - the right side - is full of millions of gray hairs. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen.I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. "I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go.But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that.
Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.
They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey. They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. And they probably came to Pencey that way. And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them.
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