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J.D. Salinger was born on January 1st of the year 1919
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“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
This shows you just how much Salinger despised war. He took part in a terrible war and saw how bad a war really is from a first person perspective. -
I went down by a different staircase, and I saw another "Fuck you" on the wall. I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn't come off. It's hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible. (25.18) A quote from the book on one of the main themes, Innocence.
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"She wasn't doing a thing, that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together" J.D. Salinger
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