“Catcher In The Rye” Author J.D. Salinger Dead At 91

“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?  Nobody. ”

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945

Rest in peace, you damned crazy brilliant sonofabitch.

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