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Zooey Quotes

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J.D. Salinger
“It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in my dorm, for example, - he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. 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.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“I might as well just call you “Bridge to Terabithiaâ€� since you make children cry!”
Zooey Deschanel

J.D. Salinger
“As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure —or even intellectual treasure â€� and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety percent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger
“I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger
“Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted-or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect-he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger
“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger
“I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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J.D. Salinger
“I go mostly because I'm tired as hell of getting up furious in the morning and going to bed furious at night.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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J.D. Salinger
“we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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