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'You're sorry. You're sorry. That's very funny,' she said" (page 134). 3. **__Phoniness of the Adult World__**
 * 1) __**Alienation as a form of Self Protection**__
 * "Don't tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" (page 214).
 * "I was the only one left in the tomb then. I sort of liked it that way. It was so nice and peaceful" (page 204).
 * "Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody" (page 198).
 * 1) **__Painfulness of Growing Up__**
 * "'Absolutely nothing,' he said over again. That's something that drives me crazy" (page 10).
 * "I gave him this cold stare, like he'd insulted the hell out of me, and I asked him, 'Do I look like I'm under twenty-one?'" (page 69).
 * "'I'm sorry,' I kept telling her.
 * "Anyway, when he was finished... Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow" (page 84).
 * "You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their heads off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were" (page 126).
 * "You'd have thought she did it because she was kindhearted as hell, but I was sitting right next to her, and she wasn't" (page 139).