“One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy, a little slam at your individuality. Is it so bad that we sometimes sound like each other? The membrane is so thin between us. Is it so important for us to keep in mind which is whose... For us, doesn't each of our individualities begin right at the point where we own up to our extremely close connections and accept the inevitability of borrowing one another's jokes, talents, idiocies?”

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About J.D. Salinger

American writer

Jerome David Salinger was an American writer of the 20th century, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Born in 1919 and active for much of the mid-century, he became a private and influential literary figure. He published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, The New Yorker published his acclaimed story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” and the magazine later carried much of his work. His writing is most closely associated with fiction that captured private, unsettled lives with unusual force.

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