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“Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.” (Franny and Zooey Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“I didn’t want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.”
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
“I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.”
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
“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren’t using their true egos.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“She found herself looking at Lane as if he were a stranger, or a poster advertising a brand of linoleum, across the aisle of a subway car. Again she felt the trickle of disloyalty and guilt, which seemed to be the order of the day, and reacted to it by reaching over to cover Lane’s hand with her own. She withdrew her hand almost immediately and used it to pick her cigarette out of the ashtray. ” (Franny and Zooey Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“There are nice things in the world- and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.”
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
“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. They who work selfishly for results are miserable. — “Bhagavad Gita.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“You never get to sit next to the window any more when you’re married.” (Franny and Zooey Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
“You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”
J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
