I thought what I'd do was... (Post great quotes or lines)

**ßetray** · 09-14-2009

I figured that I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars.
I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to
have any goddam stupid useless conversation with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something,
they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing
that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd
think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food, and
later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute
and we'd getmarried. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to
me, she'd have to write it on a piece of paper, like everybody else.

The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Page 198