Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here — the first house down the road, maybe — there's a good poet dying, but also … - J. D. Salinger

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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here — the first house down the road, maybe — there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

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About J. D. Salinger

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
Alternative Names: Jerome Salinger

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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

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