Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?
It’s history. It’s poetry. - J. D. Salinger
It’s history. It’s poetry.
- J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron. - J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly - J. D. Salinger
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. - J. D. Salinger
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce th… - J. D. Salinger
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce th…
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do. - J. D. Salinger
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human - J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. - J. D. Salinger
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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