'Franny and Zooey' Quotes

Franny and Zooey is a collection of short stories by J.D. Salinger, who is perhaps best known for his famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Here are a few quotes from the collection.

• "Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you."
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• "I'm just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream."
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• "Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear."
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• "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 as everybody else, only in a different way."
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• "I feel so funny. I think I'm going crazy. Maybe I'm already crazy."
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• "Seymour once said to me - in a crosstown bus, of all places - that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold."
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• "Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day."
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• "You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."
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• "We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too."
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• "You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one season of summer stock, and you listen to the conversation of a bunch of nitwit college students, and you decide that everything's ego, ego, ego, and the only intelligent thing for a girl to do is to lie around and shave her head and say the Jesus prayer and beg God for little mystical experience that'll maker her nice and happy."
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• "The only think you can do now, the only religious thing you can do, is act. Act for God, if you want to - be God's actress, if you want to. What could be prettier? You can at least try to, if you want to--there's nothing wrong in trying."
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• "An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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