“I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in The Catcher in the Rye. Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.”

—  Jerome David Salinger

As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429

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