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“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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