Franny and Zooey Quotes

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect...”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:love respect

“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.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:happiness knowledge intelligence

“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:knowledge wisdom

“you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:self responsibility

“Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:heart

“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:beauty

“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:talking

“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:talking

“My God, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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