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“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

Childhood Aristocrats Jd Salinger

Author:Heather O'Neill

“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?’ he asked. ‘You know what was in that apple? Logic. Logic and intellectual stuff. That was all that was in it. So—this is my point—what you have to do is vomit it up if you want to see things as they really are.”

J D Salinger Jd Salinger

Author: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 — 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.”

Franny And Zooey Jd Salinger Zooey Franny Glass Family

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“...I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

Glass Franny And Zooey Jd Salinger Franny Glass Family Zoeey

Book:franny and zooey

Source: 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, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”

Franny And Zooey Jd Salinger

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.”

Franny And Zooey Jd Salinger Zooey Franny Glass Family

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“When she was done whispering in the mike and being cute as hell, they'd sing a song half in English and half in French and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy.”

Humor The Catcher In The Rye Jd Salinger

Author:J.D. Salinger

“The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy.”

Humorous Jd Salinger

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“All you have to have in the beginning is quantity. Then, later on, it becomes quality by itself.”

Fiction Quote Fiction Novel Franny And Zooey Jd Salinger

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey