

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”
― Humboldt's Gift
― Humboldt's Gift

“For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey

“Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron, the sponsors were morons, and I just damn well wasn't going to shine my shoes for them, I told Seymour. I said they couldn't see them anyway, where we sat. He said to shine them anyway. He said to shine them for the Fat Lady.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey

“In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself. ”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey

“Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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