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Franny and Zooey quotes

J. D. Salinger

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“Against my better judgment, I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young...” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect...” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you're able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can't you use the same energy to stay well and busy?” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“My God, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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