J.d. Salinger, Franny And Zooey

Quotes

• “It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessa...”
• “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 somet...”
• “He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest...”
• “I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by ...”
• “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.”
• “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
• “And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”