Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and fo… - J. D. Salinger

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Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

J. D. Salinger

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction · January 30, 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Jerome David Salinger (1 January 1919 – 27 January 2010) was an American author, most famous for his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

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Native Name: Jerome David Salinger

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