"Franny and Zooey" Quotes
A story about the troubled Glass siblings navigating their way through existential crises and spiritual searching.
fiction | 201 pages | Published in 1955
Quotes
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
I'm so terribly sorry. I simply don't have time to be polite to everybody.
I'm very, very sorry, but I simply am not equal to being a good hostess.
I'm just sick of your religious opinions.
I'm sick of old men, and old men's games.
I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting.
All we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
I'm not afraid to be a bad guy. I live too much in a bad world.





