“You have to stop trying to make other people 'measure up.' This is a standard only you can apply to yourself. It's the only one you have the right to enforce.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.comTagged: Life
“He's detached about your pain, but God knows he takes his own pain more seriously than cancer...There is nothing remotely detached about my father's behavior towards his own pain, in his hemorrhages about anything personal being known about him...It finally dawned on me that my father, for all his p…”— Margaret Salinger, amazon.comTagged: Life, Pain
“Nothing one man can say can help another. Each must make his own way.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.comTagged: Life