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Birth
J.D. Salinger was born on January 1st of the year 1919 -
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Fighter in World War II
“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. -
Publishing of his only novel The Catcher in the Rye
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. -
Salinger Marries Claire Douglas
"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 -
Death