J.D. Salinger Died Today
Damn.
Here are a few quotes from his most famous character, Holden Caufield from The Catcher in the Rye.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
In my mind, I’m probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.
People always clap for the wrong things.
I’m sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoyed the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
Anyway, I’m sort of glad they’ve got the atomic bomb invented. If there’s ever another war, I’m going to sit right the hell on top of it. I’ll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
People never give your message to anybody.
