#holden

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

#death #funeral-rites #holden #hope

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#laughter #movies

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#men #much #others #ought #write

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfield #stasis #change