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I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. This fall I think you're riding for — it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started...
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye insightful intuitive perceptive

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CLASSICS 20 clues
LIFELESSON 3 clues
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Unscramble SALINGER8-letter words that start with S8-letter words that end in R8-letter words containing AL8-letter words containing ER8-letter words with S and A
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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ENE
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AND STILL ___
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