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The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they’ll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don’t like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they’ll say he’s conceited. Even smart girls do it.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 18. To Holden girls are essential fake, or phony to use one of his favorite words.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 18.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

– Barry Sheene

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