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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.


J. D. Hayworth

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J. D. VANCE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. SOUTHER There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think...
J. D. SOUTHER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th...
J. D. VANCE My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose...
J. D. VANCE It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ...
J. D. VANCE I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. ...
J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J. D. SALINGER Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it
J. D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J. D. SALINGER It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...
J. D. SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h...
J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma...
J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow.
J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
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