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  1. J.D. Salinger _ The Catcher in the Rye

    The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy.
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  2. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.
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  3. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    ...I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
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  4. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure -or even intellectual treasure- and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety percent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are.
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  5. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.
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