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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Life Re: JD Salinger

Posted by on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:47 AM

His death reminded me of this quote:

"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. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.”

He truly was a hermit crab with opposable thumbs.

 

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90's equivalent would be Beavis and Butthead saying "It sucks and then it sucks some more."
Posted by devolution on January 28, 2010 at 12:10 PM
singing cynic 2
“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.”
Posted by singing cynic on January 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 3
Oh, great - now every jerk-off in a five-state radius will be going to the cemetary and spray-painting "fuck you" on his tombstone.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on January 28, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Fnarf 4
If he does put that on his tombstone, it will get stolen ten times a year.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on January 28, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Keekee 5
He does make a good point..
Posted by Keekee on January 28, 2010 at 1:58 PM
6
Maybe if he wasn't a dick who wrote a famous book (with a protagonist who was a dick) people wouldn't be a dick to him all the time.
Posted by dwight moody on January 28, 2010 at 4:34 PM
7
I doubt people were dicks to him. No more frequently than any of the rest of us.

Whatever. What a sad way to be. Life's too short to be like that.
Posted by Grease Wizard on January 28, 2010 at 11:42 PM
attitude devant 8
Yeah, well, at least maybe now we won't have to hear about Joyce Maynard any more....
Posted by attitude devant on January 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM

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