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“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.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― The Twits
― The Twits
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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