“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey  

“I could happily lie down and die sometimes.”

—J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“For some minutes, before she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep, she just lay quiet, smiling at the ceiling.”

—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I’m not sophisticated, I’m not anything. I’m just me.”

—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, is 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

“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings—excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.”

—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”

—J.D. Salinger

“...I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”

—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“I’m 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— it is, it is. I don’t care what anybody says.”

—J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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