who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J. D. Salinger More Quotes by J. D. Salinger More Quotes From J. D. Salinger I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse. J. D. Salinger hate goodbye school If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so. J. D. Salinger fats said rose I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. J. D. Salinger inspiration running kids I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens. J. D. Salinger husband girl children If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me. J. D. Salinger one-thing hate ifs It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. J. D. Salinger tiny brain littles Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. J. D. Salinger give-me ends giving Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear. J. D. Salinger disappear chairs Girls. You never know what they're going to think. J. D. Salinger girl night thinking In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. J. D. Salinger saws mind sex 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. J. D. Salinger swear-to-god volunteer war Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. J. D. Salinger horsing-around hot sex I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. J. D. Salinger best me you funny Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel. J. D. Salinger your feel someone you There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time. J. D. Salinger more moment time book
