Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard—very mean, or very conceited and all—and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.
 J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951). copy citation

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Author J. D. Salinger
Source The Catcher in the Rye
Topic meanness inferiority
Date 1951
Language English
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