J.D. Salinger and Holden Quotes
The author of one of favorite books, Catcher in the Rye, I actually read it every couple of years, passed away yesterday. It just made me think of the book and the joy I get reading it. He, JD, was actually very funny with wicked observations on life. This is what I mean:
J. D. Salinger said:
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start to miss them…”
“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.”
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.”
“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.”
“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.”
“It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.”
