know that you'll be remembered
RIP, Mr. Salinger. You brought me together with friends, comforted me, and gave me combinations of words that will stay with me forever.
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.
- from "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
Also, you were kind of a hottie when you were young, and a hermit as you got older, and I can respect both of those things.
Source.
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Bunch of phonies mourn J.D. Salinger
from the Onion
CORNISH, NH-In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.
