The author J.D. Salinger died today. These are some of my favorite quotes from his books, and by him:
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.”
- J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
– J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
– J.D.Salinger (1919 – 2010), Seymour:An Introduction
I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
– J. D. Salinger (1919 – 2010)
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
– J. D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), Franny and Zooey Pg. 30
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 (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.
– J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
- J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
- J.D.Salinger (1919 – 2010), Seymour:An Introduction
I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 – 2010)
I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger (1919 – 2010), Franny and Zooey Pg. 30
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 (1919 – 2010), The Catcher in the Rye
The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
– J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)
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