lousy quotes

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably wantto know iswhere Iwasborn, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind ofcrap, but Idon't feel likegoing into it.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.1.

He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.11.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. 860

-James Grover Thurber
Of a play he had recently seen. Attributed.